IMAGE OF THE CITY IN ART TO THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN ERA

Ideas of cities in the art for ages fascinated researchers, becoming an object of many different inquiries of humanistic disciplines and related to them. Within the art history the city became the subject of research above all of urban planners and historians of architecture, interested in the history of spiritual culture and material. Historians and art historians make efforts to solve the genesis, structure and function of European cities from the ancient times to almost contemporary. In the parallel stream of searching associated with the city arise questions about other basic links, without which it is hard to understand the urban structure. Include above all the issues associated with the image of man as individual remaining in different connections with the social structure.