It is logical to try, at least conditionally, to single out certain subgenres that have their own specifi cs inside the phenomenon of the German broadsheet, which is controversial and diffi cult to analyze. Broadsheets with views of cities were printed invariably in line with broadsheets on political, religious, and other themes in the XVII century. They had a historical background, but sometimes, e.g. in the middle of the century, they became of independent signifi cance. The contemplation of the city view, based on a modern topographic engraving, provided with a short poetic text, was apparently the main proposal from the creators of such sheets to the buyer. This determined their compositional solution — a horizontal format and the prevalence of visual image over the text. The study of two samples of such views of a well-known German city of Lübeck allows us to penetrate deeper into the mechanism of interaction between the broadsheet and the viewer, the engraving and its text.

Keywords: broadsheet, German XVII century, baroque, view of the city, Lübeck.

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