Publisher :Penguin UK Release Date :2003-07-03 ISBN 13:0141936789 Total Pages :704 pages Rating :4.4/5 (141 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt A History of Venice :
Download or Read book A History of Venice written by John Julius Norwich and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: John Julius Norwich's dazzling history of Venice from its origins to its eighteenth century fall. 'Lord Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done. He has put readers of his generation more in his debt than any other English writer' Peter Levi, The Sunday Times.
Publisher :London : Allen Lane, 1977, 1978 printing. Release Date :1977 ISBN 13: Total Pages :344 pages Rating :4.O/5 ( users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Venice :
Download or Read book Venice written by John Julius Norwich and published by London : Allen Lane, 1977, 1978 printing.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
Publisher :Harvard University Press Release Date :2007 ISBN 13:9780674022836 Total Pages :394 pages Rating :4.2/5 (22 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt History of Venice :
Download or Read book History of Venice written by Pietro Bembo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a Roman Catholic cardinal, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian. The History of Venice was published posthumously, in Latin and in his own Italian version. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.
Publisher :Yale University Press Release Date :2002-01-01 ISBN 13:9780300090291 Total Pages :376 pages Rating :4.9/5 (9 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt The Architectural History of Venice :
Download or Read book The Architectural History of Venice written by Deborah Howard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Overzicht van de Venetiaanse architectuur, vanaf de stichting in de Romeinse tijd tot nu.
Publisher :Yale University Press Release Date :2014-09-28 ISBN 13:0300210116 Total Pages :353 pages Rating :4.0/5 (3 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Italian Venice :
Download or Read book Italian Venice written by R. J. B. Bosworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: 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.
Publisher :JHU Press Release Date :2020-03-24 ISBN 13:1421436256 Total Pages :588 pages Rating :4.2/5 (421 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Venice and History :
Download or Read book Venice and History written by Frederic Chapin Lane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Lane, who specialized in medieval Venetian history.
Publisher : Release Date :1893 ISBN 13: Total Pages :512 pages Rating :4.B/5 (5 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Venice :
Download or Read book Venice written by Horatio Forbes Brown and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
Publisher :JHU Press Release Date :2003-02 ISBN 13:9780801873089 Total Pages :568 pages Rating :4.7/5 (873 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Venice Reconsidered :
Download or Read book Venice Reconsidered written by John Jeffries Martin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: 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.
Publisher :Hachette UK Release Date :2013-02-07 ISBN 13:1472107748 Total Pages :272 pages Rating :4.7/5 (472 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt A Brief History of Venice :
Download or Read book A Brief History of Venice written by Elizabeth Horodowich and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. She explores the often overlooked role of Venice, alongside Florence and Rome, as one of the principal Renaissance capitals. Now, as the resident population falls and the number of tourists grows, as brash new advertisements disfigure the ancient buildings, she looks at the threat from the rising water level and the future of one of the great wonders of the world.
Publisher :New Word City Release Date :2017-05-18 ISBN 13:1640190678 Total Pages :195 pages Rating :4.4/5 (64 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Venice: A History :
Download or Read book Venice: A History written by John Davis and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: Rarely in history has a great city arisen in a less likely place than the islands and mud flats of the Venetian lagoon. But they provided the city’s founders with a refuge from the barbarians who had invaded their mainland homes. With energy and ingenuity, these displaced people created a maritime empire of unequaled splendor. At its height, the Republic of Venice was said to encompass “one quarter and one half of one quarter” of the known world. During those years, its merchant princess lived more lavishly than many kings. With the discovery of the New World, however, Venice’s trading monopolies were broken. The long, slow decline that followed was protracted and infinitely poignant. Today, the decaying buildings adjoining the Rialto Bridge serve as haunting reminders of the bygone age of La Serenissima, the Most Serene Republic. Here is the dramatic story of the city that was once known as the most beautiful in the world - the bride of the Adriatic and the unchallenged mistress of the Mediterranean.
Publisher :National Geographic Books Release Date :2013-10-29 ISBN 13:0147509807 Total Pages :0 pages Rating :4.4/5 (147 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Venice :
Download or Read book Venice written by Thomas F. Madden and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: A spellbinding new portrait of one of the world’s most beloved cities, from the author of Istanbul La Serenissima. Its breathtaking architecture, art, and opera ensure that Venice remains a perennially popular destination for tourists and armchair travelers alike. Yet most of the available books about this magical city are either facile travel guides or fusty academic tomes. In Venice, renowned historian Thomas F. Madden draws on new research to explore the city’s many astonishing achievements and to set 1,500 years of Venetian history and the endless Venetian-led Crusades in the context of the ever-shifting Eurasian world. Filled with compelling insights and famous figures, Venice is a monumental work of popular history that’s as opulent and entertaining as the great city itself.
Publisher : Release Date :1858 ISBN 13: Total Pages :388 pages Rating :4.Z/5 (2 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt The History of the Origin and Rise of the Republic of Venice :
Download or Read book The History of the Origin and Rise of the Republic of Venice written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
Publisher :Constable Release Date :2009 ISBN 13:9781845296117 Total Pages :250 pages Rating :4.9/5 (296 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt A Brief History of Venice :
Download or Read book A Brief History of Venice written by Elizabeth Horodowich and published by Constable. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. She explores the often overlooked role of Venice, alongside Florence and Rome, as one of the principal Renaissance capitals. Now, as the resident population falls and the number of tourists grows, as brash new advertisements disfigure the ancient buildings, she looks at the threat from the rising water level and the future of one of the great wonders of the world.
Publisher : Release Date :1995 ISBN 13: Total Pages :478 pages Rating :4.1/5 (11 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt A History of Venice :
Download or Read book A History of Venice written by Alethea Wiel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis:
Publisher :National Geographic Books Release Date :2004-11-09 ISBN 13:1400032377 Total Pages :0 pages Rating :4.0/5 (4 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Paradise of Cities :
Download or Read book Paradise of Cities written by John Julius Norwich and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: John Julius Norwich’s A History of Venice has been dubbed “indispensable” by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice’s highs and lows, from its ignominious capture by Napoleon in 1797 to the dawn of the 20th century. An obligatory stop on the Grand Tour for any cultured Englishman (and, later, Americans), Venice limped into the 19th century–first under the yoke of France, then as an outpost of the Austrian Hapsburgs, stripped of riches yet indelibly the most ravishing city in Italy. Even when subsumed into a unified Italy in 1866, it remained a magnet for aesthetes of all stripes–subject or setting of books by Ruskin and James, a muse to poets and musicians, in its way the most gracious courtesan of all European cities. By refracting images of Venice through the visits of such extravagant (and sometimes debauched) artists as Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, and the inimitable Baron Corvo, Norwich conjures visions of paradise on a lagoon, as enduring as brick and as elusive as the tides.
Publisher :Harry N. Abrams Release Date :2009-12-01 ISBN 13:9781585671328 Total Pages :0 pages Rating :4.7/5 (671 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Venice 697-1797 :
Download or Read book Venice 697-1797 written by Aluise Zorzi and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: The introduction recounts the reputation of the canaled cosmopolis through history: Venice as city of lovers and libertines (the fluid city gave birth to Cassanova), the best city in which to hide, a city of high culture, and a 16th-century haven for heretics and free thinkers. Specific history/legend begins with early settlement of the area as a result of the invasion of Attila, forcing Romans to find refuge among small fishing islands and narrow canals (Zorzi believes it wasn't just Attila, but a series of sieges and resulting settlements). The book is heavy with paintings and photos, and appendices include a very useful chronology, a list of Venice doges, and a glossary of names. Written to appeal to an educated but popular readership. Zorzi is chairman of the Committee for the Publication of Source Material on the History of Venice. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Publisher :Univ of California Press Release Date :2015-03-14 ISBN 13:0520281799 Total Pages :372 pages Rating :4.2/5 (52 users download) GO BOOK!
Summary Book and excerpt Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400 1600 :
Download or Read book Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400 1600 written by Loren Partridge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/Synopsis: "A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of Venetian Renaissance architecture, sculpture, and painting created between 1400 and 1600 addressed to students, travellers, and the general public. The works of art are analysed within Venice's cultural circumstances--political, economic, intellectual, and religious--and in terms of function, style, iconography, patronage, classical sources, gender, art theories, and artist's innovations, rivalries, and social status. The text has been divided into two parts--the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century--each part preceded by an introduction that recounts the history of Venice to 1500 and to 1600 respectively, including the city's founding, ideology, territorial expansion, social classes, governmental structure, economy, and religion. The twenty-six chapters have been organized to lead readers systematically through the major artistic developments within the three principal categories of art--governmental, ecclesiastic, and domestic--and have been arranged sequentially as follows: civic architecture and urbanism, churches, church decoration (ducal tombs and altarpieces), refectories and refectory decoration (section two only), confraternities (architecture and decoration), palaces, palace decoration (devotional works, portraits, secular painting, and halls of state), villas, and villa decoration. The conclusion offers an overview of the major types of Venetian art and architectural patronage and their funding sources"--Provided by publisher.
