The city

The city is humanity's own landscape, built of streets, squares and houses. We follow the cityscape from the frescoes of Siena and the ideal cities of the Renaissance, through Vermeer's Delft and Canaletto's Venice, to the Impressionists' Paris, a Chinese festival day in Kaifeng, Stockholm beneath a celestial sign, and the neon and street art of the modern metropolis.

• From the Heavenly Jerusalem to Siena
• Perspective and ideal cities – the Renaissance
• Vermeer's Delft and the Dutch city
• Vedute – Canaletto, Bellotto and Piranesi
• Paris and the streets of modernity
• The rhythm of the metropolis – Expressionism, Futurism and New York
• Kaifeng, Kyoto and Edo – cities in East Asia
• Stockholm and the Nordic cities