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Author : Ronald Shaw-Kennedy
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Travel
ISBN : 084531484X
Author : John Pemble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032272661
John Pemble shows how American and European outsiders developed an obsession with the idea of a dying city which must be preserved at all costs; how they reconstructed the imagery as well as the architecture of Venice, and how the Victorian need to restore was supplanted by a wish to conserve without altering the remains of this fragile inheritance.
Author : John Jeffries Martin,Dennis Romano
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0801873088
Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.
Author : Daniel Wildenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Wildenstein & Co. (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000829399
Author : Dennis. Romano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190859985
Venice, one of the world's most storied cities, has a long and remarkable history, told here in its full scope from its founding in the early Middle Ages to the present day. A place whose fortunes and livelihoods have been shaped to a large degree by its relationship with water, Venice is seen in Dennis Romano's account as a terrestrial and maritime power, whose religious, social, architectural, economic, and political histories have been determined by its unique geography.
Author : Henry Maguire,Robert S. Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0884023605
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 : R. J. B. Bosworth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300210118
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the fascist regime, through to the “Disneylandification” of Venice and the tourist boom, the worldwide attention of the biennale and film festival, and current threats of subsidence and flooding posed by global warming. He draws out major themes—the increasingly anachronistic but deeply embedded Catholic Church, the two faces of modernization, consumerism versus culture. Bosworth interrogates not just Venice’s history but its meanings, and how the city’s past has been co-opted to suit present and sometimes ulterior aims. Venice, he shows, is a city where its histories as well as its waters ripple on the surface.
Author : Michael O'Neill,Mark Sandy,Sarah Wootton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317322603
In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice’s appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.
Author : Valeria P. Babini,Chiara Beccalossi,Lucy Riall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137396990
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004252523
The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including political culture, economy, religion, gender, art, literature, music, and the environment. Each chapter provides a broad but comprehensive historical and historiographical overview of the current state and future directions of research. The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 represents a new point of reference for the next generation of students of early modern Venetian studies, as well as more broadly for scholars working on all aspects of the early modern world. Contributors are Alfredo Viggiano, Benjamin Arbel, Michael Knapton, Claudio Povolo, Luciano Pezzolo, Anna Bellavitis, Anne Schutte, Guido Ruggiero, Benjamin Ravid, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Cecilia Cristellon, David D’Andrea, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Wolfgang Wolters, Dulcia Meijers, Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, Deborah Howard, Linda Carroll, Jonathan Glixon, Paul Grendler, Edward Muir, William Eamon, Edoardo Demo, Margaret King, Mario Infelise, Margaret Rosenthal and Ronnie Ferguson.
Author : Thomas F. Madden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101601136
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an arc from the city’s humble origins as a lagoon refuge to its apex as a vast maritime empire and Renaissance epicenter to its rebirth as a modern tourist hub. Madden explores all aspects of Venice’s breathtaking achievements: the construction of its unparalleled navy, its role as an economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its popularization of opera, the stunning architecture of its watery environs, and more. He sets these in the context of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, the endless waves of Crusades to the Holy Land, and the awesome power of Turkish sultans. And perhaps most critically, Madden corrects the stereotype of Shakespeare’s money-lending Shylock that has distorted the Venetian character, uncovering instead a much more complex and fascinating story, peopled by men and women whose ingenuity and deep faith profoundly altered the course of civilization.
Author : Editors Out
Publisher : Time Out
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1846703042
Venice conjures images of gondolas drifting along misty canals and pigeon-feeding visitors dwarfed by the splendor of St. Mark’s. For tourists seeking these typical Venetian icons, this magical city will never disappoint. But for a more rounded experience, the longtime residents and experts who have contributed to Time Out Venice take readers down backstreets and into campi and calli where few tourists tread: to hidden churches with hidden artworks; to architectural and sculptural gems in concealed courtyards; and to districts where the everyday life of Venice goes on in time-honored, washing-festooned, market-haggling fashion. Included is a wealth of practical information on escaping the menu turistico to discover authentic eateries; hiring a gondola and coping with acqua alta; finding budget digs in a city of haute hotels; and traveling beyond the Venetian lagoon to the magnificent cities — Padua, Verona, Vicenza, Treviso — and countryside of the mainland Veneto region.
Author : Richard John Goy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300112920
This book brings to life the story of the construction of some of the most outstanding early Renaissance buildings in Venice. Through a series of individual case studies, Richard J. Goy explores how and why great buildings came to be built. He addresses the practical issues of constructing such buildings as the Torre dell’Orologio in Piazza San Marco, the Arsenale Gate, and the churches of Santa Maria della Carita and San Zaccaria, focusing particular attention on the process of patronage. The book is the first to trace the complete process of creating important buildings, from the earliest conception in the minds of the patrons--the Venetian state or other institutional patrons--through the choice of architect, the employment of craftsmen, and the selection of materials. In an interesting analysis of the participants’ roles, Goy highlights the emerging importance of the superintending master, the protomaestro.
Author : Warren Adelson,John Singer Sargent,William H. Gerdts,Richard Ormond,Elaine Kilmurray,Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300117172
Den amerikanske kunstner John Singer Sargents (1856-1925) skildringer af Venedig.
