Myths Of Venice

Author : David Rosand
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807872796

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Myths of Venice by David Rosand Pdf

Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance. Never conquered and taking its enduring independence as a sign of divine favor, free of civil strife and proud of its internal stability, Venice broadcast the image of itself as the Most Serene Republic, an ideal state whose ruling patriciate were selflessly devoted to the commonweal. All this has come to be known as the "myth of Venice." Exploring the imagery developed in Venice to represent the legends of its origins and legitimacy, David Rosand reveals how artists such as Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Tintoretto, and Veronese gave enduring visual form to the myths of Venice. He argues that Venice, more than any other political entity of the early modern period, shaped the visual imagination of political thought. This visualization of political ideals, and its reciprocal effect on the civic imagination, is the larger theme of the book.

Author : Henry Maguire,Robert S. Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0884023605

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San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice by Henry Maguire,Robert S. Nelson Pdf

Henry Maguire, emeritus professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, works on Byzantine and related cultures. He has written extensively on Venetian art and the church of San Marco.

Author : Craig Kallendorf
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048922069

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Virgil and the Myth of Venice by Craig Kallendorf Pdf

This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows that the Roman poet Virgil played an unexpectedly significant role in the shaping of Renaissance Venetian culture. Drawing on reception theory and the sociology of literature, it argues that Virgil's poetry became a best-seller because it sometimes challenged, but more often confirmed, the specific moral, religious, and social values of the Venetian readers.

Author : Dominic Standish
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761856641

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Venice in Environmental Peril? by Dominic Standish Pdf

Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? This book explores Venice's environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian Republic. Campaigners' opinions about the mobile dams nearing completion to protect the city reveal that Venice now represents an environmentally-threatened retreat from modernity. This reputation has been established as sustainable development and climate change policies have risen to the top of political agendas in many cities and countries. The book investigates how environmentalism has been transformed from a theory underpinning counter-cultural movements to part of a dominant holistic culture in Western societies. Rather than constraining Venice in search of a mythical harmony with nature, this book offers a ten-point proposal to modernize the city while preserving its ancient heritage.

Author : Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0801881897

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Venice Triumphant by Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan Pdf

A group of senior citizens decide to move in together in All Together, a French-language comedy from director Stephanie Robelin. When Claude (Claude Rich) suffers an injury while trying to climb steps in order to meet a woman for a liaison, he and his friends, who are all suffering from some age-related malady, decide to move in together and hire a graduate student to look out for them. Among the new co-tenants are the senile Albert (Pierre Richard) and his wife, the outgoing Jeanne (Jane Fonda) who herself is fighting cancer. Also living with them is Jean (Guy Bedos) a onetime social crusader who enjoys the wealth he's acquired with his wife Annie (Geraldine Chaplin), who wants nothing more than to visit with her children and grandchildren. As they adjust to their new living arrangements, old jealousies and hurts resurface, forcing everyone to reconsider how they want to spend their golden years. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Author : John Martin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520912335

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Venice's Hidden Enemies by John Martin Pdf

How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result is a profoundly important contribution to Renaissance and Reformation studies. Martin offers a vivid re-creation of the social and cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics—those men and women who articulated their hopes for religious and political reform and whose ideologies ranged from evangelical to anabaptist and even millenarian positions. In exploring the connections between religious beliefs and social experience, he weaves a rich tapestry of Renaissance urban life that is sure to intrigue all those involved in anthropological, religious, and historical studies—students and scholars alike.

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056317

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Shakespeare and Venice by Graham Holderness Pdf

Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. Graham Holderness focuses specifically on how that mythology was employed by Shakespeare to explore themes of conversion, change, and metamorphosis. Identifying and outlining the materials having to do with Venice which might have been available to Shakespeare, Holderness provides a full historical account of past and present Venetian myths and of the city's relationship with both Judaism and Islam. Holderness also provides detailed readings of both The Merchant of Venice and of Othello against these mythical and historical dimensions, and concludes with discussion of Venice's relevance to both the modern world and to the past.

Author : David C. McPherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015021879286

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Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Myth of Venice by David C. McPherson Pdf

This work outlines the bright and dark sides of the Myth of Venice, dwelling on four aspects: Venice the Rich, Venice the Wise, Venice the Just, and Venezia-citta-galante. After describing the channels through which Shakespeare and Jonson could have become aware of this myth, this work uses it to generate new understandings of the Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Volpone.

Author : Eco O. G. Haitsma Mulier
Publisher : Thesis Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001052755

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The Myth of Venice and Dutch Republican Thought in the Seventeenth Century by Eco O. G. Haitsma Mulier Pdf

Author : Meredith Small
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643135397

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Inventing the World by Meredith Small Pdf

An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social. Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta. But Venice is far from a historic relic or a life-sized museum. It is a living city that still embraces its innovative roots. As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the front lines of preserving its legacy and cultural history to inspire a new generation of innovators.

Author : Joanne M. Ferraro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139536189

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Venice by Joanne M. Ferraro Pdf

This book is a sweeping historical portrait of the floating city of Venice from its foundations to the present day. Joanne M. Ferraro considers Venice's unique construction within an amphibious environment and identifies the Asian, European and North African exchange networks that made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean cultural centre. Incorporating recent scholarly insights, the author discusses key themes related to the city's social, cultural, religious and environmental history, as well as its politics and economy. A refuge and a pilgrim stop; an international emporium and centre of manufacture; a mecca of spectacle, theatre, music, gambling and sexual experimentation; and an artistic and architectural marvel, Venice's allure springs eternal in every phase of the city's fascinating history.

Author : Dennis Romano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300112025

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The Likeness of Venice by Dennis Romano Pdf

Immortalized in later centuries in works by Lord Byron, Giuseppe Verdi, Eugène Delacroix, and others, Francesco Foscari reigned as the powerful doge of Venice during tumultuous years from 1423 to 1457. The stuff of legends, his life was marked by political conflict, vengeful enemies, family heartbreak, and, at the end, the forced relinquishment of the ducal throne. Yet Foscari left behind no personal papers, and until now, no complete biography of him has been written. This book, a thorough and fascinating biography, fills that longstanding gap, illuminating not only the life of the man but also the history and culture of fifteenth-century Venice. Dennis Romano reconstructs Foscari’s life through careful reading of extant governmental records and chronicle sources. He also uses architectural monuments built by Foscari and his heirs as critical interpretive keys for unlocking the personality and policies of the doge. Romano analyzes how art and power intersected in Renaissance Italy and how the doge came to represent and even embody the state. With this biography, Romano clears away longstanding myths, fills in previously unknown details about Foscari’s triumphs and ordeals, and allows to emerge the first intimate portrait of this singular doge.

Author : Tiziano Scarpa
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847651723

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Venice is a Fish: A Cultural Guide by Tiziano Scarpa Pdf

Built on an inverted forest, paved with a tortoiseshell of boulders, Venice is a maze of tiny alleys, bridges and squares. Tiziano Scarpa wanders through the city, recounting the customs and secrets that only Venetians know. With everything from practical advice for aspiring Venetian lovers to hints at where to find the best bacaro, Scarpa waves the tourist in the right direction and, without naming a single restaurant, hotel or bar, relates the secret language needed to experience the real Venice. So ignore the street signs - why fight the labyrinth? Venice, the fish, is ready to swallow you whole.

Author : Marion Leathers Kuntz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024922333

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Venice, Myth and Utopian Thought in the Sixteenth-century by Marion Leathers Kuntz Pdf

The concept of Venice as the 'most perfect republic' was a major part of the myth of Venice which reached its full flowering in the 16th century. This myth in turn fed utopian visions of a unified world in which universal reformation and brotherhood would be the hallmark. The essays here examine the ideas and motivation of three Frenchmen of the 16th century, Jean Bodin, Guillaume Postel and Dionisio Gallo, who each made their own contribution to this conception of Venice and developed their own utopian ideals. Themes discussed are the foundations of Venetian toleration, the reasons for God's love of Venice above any other city, the relationship between charity and restitution, and the role of sexual dualism as a paradigm for the ideal state. Particular attention is given to the enigmatic figure of the 'Virgin of Venice'.

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700549

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Venice and the Renaissance by Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

Pursuing the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth, Manfredo Tafuri develops a story crowded with characters and full of surprises. He engages the doges Andrea Gritti and Leonardo Dona; architects and artists Sansovino, Serlio, Palladio, and Scamozzi; and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo. He records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government, and contrasts these with the myths that inspired them.