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Book Venetian Views  Venetian Blinds

Download or read book Venetian Views Venetian Blinds written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a millennium of English and American fantasies of Venice: this collection of essays by leading critics in the field explores the continued and continuing fascination of travellers, writers, artists, theatre workers and film makers with the amphibious and ambiguous city in the lagoon. There is hardly another place in Europe that has become so much of a palimpsest, inscribed with the fantasies, the dreams and nightmares of generations of foreigners, and this turns Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds into a particularly pertinent case study of the ways cultural difference within Europe is experienced, enacted and constructed. The essays range across five centuries - from the Renaissance to our postmodern present, from Shakespeare and his contemporary Coryate to recent novels, detective fiction and films - and, in contrast to previous studies focussing on the Grand Tour, they emphasise more recent developments and how they continue or disrupt traditional ways of perceiving - or being blind to! - Venice.

Book Views of Venice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Canaletto
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 0486227057
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Views of Venice written by Canaletto and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1971 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous series of paintings reproduced in contemporary engravings by Visentini. Wonderful view of 18th-century Venice; thorough text by J. Links. 50 illustrations.

Book Venetian Views

    Book Details:
  • Author : Filippo Pedrocco
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Venetian Views written by Filippo Pedrocco and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice is one of the most beloved cities in the world. The second most popular city in Italy, its romantic vistas have begged artists for centuries to capture its rich topography with paint and brush. In the eighteenth century, a group of artists answered that call with glorious results. Artists such as Canaletto, Luca Carlevaris, and Francesco Guardi, painted and sketched views of Venice which still delight the modern day viewer. V"enetian Views" is the first comprehensive consideration of this enchanting chapter of Venetian art. This handsome volume, which includes over 200 color illustrations, includes not only the most well-known practitioners of this art form, but also those less well-known but equally accomplished, including Michele Marieschi, Giacomo Guardi, Bernardo Belloto, and Antonio Visentini. For the Italian art aficionado, this a required addition to any library. And for those uninitiated into the spectacular scenes these artists produced, "Venetian Views" is a gorgeous introduction.

Book The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance

Download or read book The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance written by Bernard Berenson and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Venetian Chic

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  • Author : Francesca Bortolotto Possati
  • Publisher : Assouline Publishing
  • Release : 2017-02-01
  • ISBN : 1614285381
  • Pages : 3 pages

Download or read book Venetian Chic written by Francesca Bortolotto Possati and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venetian art connoisseur, interior designer, and hotelier Francesca Bortolotto Possati knows the intricacies of Venice. To have her as a guide is to experience firsthand her passion for the private side of the mythic city whose daily visitors outnumber its population. Join her to visit artists’ studios, elegant Venetian friends, and palaces’ secrets. Everywhere one wanders, a sense of history saturates the buildings and landscapes, harking back to the artists of the Renaissance and the chic masquerade balls of centuries past.The discerning eye of photographer Robyn Lea makes this book a revelation of the Venice of dreams, which will surely allow readers to see this iconic destination through new eyes.A sentimental foreword by Jeremy Irons perfectly complements this stunning volume.

Book Shakespeare and Venice

Download or read book Shakespeare and Venice written by Graham Holderness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book POLPO

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russell Norman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-10-30
  • ISBN : 1608199096
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book POLPO written by Russell Norman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated collection of 120 lesser-known Venetian specialties from London's edgy Soho district restaurant is complemented by sumptuous photography and includes such option as warm duck salad with beets and walnuts, crispy baby pizzas with zucchini and warm autumn fruits with amaretto cream. 25,000 first printing.

Book Painting in Eighteenth century Venice

Download or read book Painting in Eighteenth century Venice written by Michael Levey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Canaletto to Tiepolo, eighteenth century Venetian painters created brilliant works of art that are now considered to be the last flowering of the long Venetian tradition of painting. This beautiful book provides an introduction to eighteenth century Venetian painting, discussing the various types of painting--portraiture, genre, landscape, history paintings and religious works--as well as the society, patronage and intellectual climate of Venice at this time.

Book History of the Venetian Republic

Download or read book History of the Venetian Republic written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Venetian Republic  Her Rise  Her Greatness  and Her Civilization

Download or read book History of the Venetian Republic Her Rise Her Greatness and Her Civilization written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Summary of and Index to Waagen

Download or read book Summary of and Index to Waagen written by Algernon Graves and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sargent s Venice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warren Adelson
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300117175
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Sargent s Venice written by Warren Adelson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den amerikanske kunstner John Singer Sargents (1856-1925) skildringer af Venedig.

Book The Venetian Republic

Download or read book The Venetian Republic written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Venetian History  1400 1797

Download or read book A Companion to Venetian History 1400 1797 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Dictionary of Painters and Engravers

Download or read book Dictionary of Painters and Engravers written by Michael Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Venice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Venice written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Venice Myth

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 217 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.