Download or read book St Mark s Rest The History of Venice written by John Ruskin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
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Download or read book St Mark s Rest written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book St Mark s Rest the History of Venice written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Horses of St Mark s written by Charles Freeman and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted historian explores the mysterious origins and surprising adventures of four iconic bronze statues as they appear and reappear through the ages. In July 1798, a triumphant procession made its way through the streets of Paris. Echoing the parades of Roman emperors many years before, Napoleon Bonaparte was proudly displaying the spoils of his recent military adventures. There were animals—caged lions and dromedaries—as well as tropical plants. Among the works of art on show, one stood out: four horses of gilded metal, taken by Napoleon from their home in Venice. The Horses of St Mark's have found themselves at the heart of European history time and time again: in Constantinople, at both its founding and sacking in the Fourth Crusade; in Venice, at both the height of its greatness and fall in 1797; in the Paris of Napoleon, and the revolutions of 1848; and back in Venice, the most romantic city in the world. Charles Freeman offers a fascinating account of both the statues themselves and the societies through which they have travelled and been displayed. As European society has developed from antiquity to the present day, these four horses have stood and watched impassively. This is the story of their—and our—times.
Download or read book Italy Northern Italy including Leghorn Florence Ravenna 12th remodelled ed written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italy Handbook for Travellers Northern Italy including Leghorn Florence Ravenna 12th remodelled ed written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of John Ruskin Volume 2 1860 1900 written by Edward Tyas Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. T. Cook's two-volume biography is a vital tool for anyone wishing to understand Ruskin's achievements in so many fields.
Download or read book The Life of John Ruskin written by Sir Edward Tyas Cook and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1968 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic biography of the 19th century author & philosopher. Illus.
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Third Supplement to the Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library written by Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. Library and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saint Marks written by Jonathan Goldberg and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various biblical and hagiographic texts that involve someone so named, the book takes as its ultimate concern the kinds of material life that outlive the human subject. From the incommensurate, anachronic instances in which Saint Mark can be located—among them, as Evangelist or as patron saint of Venice—the book traces Mark’s afterlives within art, sacred texts, and literature in conversation with such art historians and philosophers as Aby Warburg, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, T. J. Clark, Adrian Stokes, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Goldberg begins in sixteenth-century Venice, with a series of paintings by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Tintoretto, and others, that have virtually nothing to do with biblical texts. He turns then to the legacy of John Ruskin’s Stones of Venice and through it to questions about what painting does as painting. A final chapter turns to ancient texts, considering the Gospel of St. Mark together with its double, the so-called Secret Gospel that has occasioned controversy for its homoerotic implications. The posthumous persistence of a life is what the gospel named Mark calls the Kingdom of God. Saints have posthumous lives; but so too do paintings and texts. This major interdisciplinary study by one of our most astute cultural critics extends what might have been a purely theological subject to embrace questions central to cultural practice from the ancient world to the present.
Download or read book Killing the Moonlight written by Jennifer Scappettone and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by "killing the moonlight" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase. Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture—from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover—Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new. Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.
Download or read book The Venice Myth written by David Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.
Download or read book St Mark s Rest written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
