Download or read book Venice Deserted written by Luc Carton and published by Jonglez Photo Books. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional photographic report of the most beautiful city in the world, completely deserted, under the exceptional circumstances of the Corona virus lockdown.
Download or read book Venice Abandoned Is This the Place Again written by Vinicio Tassani and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice today looks like another Venice: a town affected by unknown "presence".It looks so different... the railway station without passengers, deserted "calli" (streets), gondolas stopped at berths, all the "campo" (small square) with no people walking, San Marco square completely empty, no pigeons flying around. None in front of Bridge of Sighs; nobody in Via XXII Marzo, the luxury brand street in Venice; the Caffè Florian, since 1720, never closed one day, not even between the two World Wars, even during the tides, the high water phenomena, the Aqua Granda, never. Now it closes. Rialto's bridge with no people on it's top, shaking their smartphone trying to take the best shot; the famous Fish and Vegetable Market with no desks open. There is a strange and uncomfortable "sound of silence"...
Download or read book Ruskin s Venice written by Sarah Quill and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This title was first published in 2000: John Ruskin's three-volume "The Stones of Venice" (1851-3) remains massively influential in art and architecture. To mark the centenary of Ruskin's death, this illustrated guide links Ruskin's descriptions of individual buildings with a photograph of the architecture and sculpture as it is today. Much of Ruskin's prose is reproduced, together with many of his drawings and watercolours and a number of 19th-century engravings. Sarah Quill's photographs identify the details described by Ruskin and show the extent to which the city's architecture has survived, or changed, since first publication of "The Stones of Venice". The opening chapter provides an introduction to Ruskin's involvment with Venice and to the periods and styles of Venetian architecture."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Venice written by Margaret Plant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.
Download or read book The Thief Lord written by Cornelia Funke and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the crumbling splendour of wintertime Venice, two orphans are on the run. The mysterious Thief Lord offers shelter, but a terrible danger is gathering force...
Download or read book Venice Desired written by Tony Tanner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is one city that might be said to embody both reason and desire, it would surely be Venice: a thousand-year triumph of rational legislation, aesthetic and sensual self-expression, and self-creation--powerful, lovely, serene. Unique in so many ways, Venice is also unique in its relation to writing. London has Dickens, Paris has Balzac, Saint Petersburg has Dostoevsky, Dublin has Joyce, but there is simply no comparable writer for, or out of, Venice. Venice effectively disappeared from history altogether in 1797 after its defeat by Napoleon. From then on, it seemed to exist as a curiously marooned spectacle. Literally marooned--the city mysteriously growing out of the sea, the beautiful stone impossibly floating on water--but temporally marooned as well, stagnating outside history. Yet as spectacle, as the beautiful city par excellence, the city of art, the city as art and as spectacular example, as the greatest and richest republic in the history of the world, now declined and fallen, Venice became an important site for the European imagination. Watery, dark, silent, a place of sensuality and secrecy; of masks and masquerading; of an always possibly treacherous beauty; of Desdemona and Iago, Shylock, Volpone; of conspiracy and courtesans in Otway; an obvious setting for many Gothic novels--Venice is not written from the inside but variously appropriated from without. Venice--the place, the name, the dream--seems to lend itself to a whole variety of appreciations, recuperations, and and hallucinations. In decay and decline, yet saturated with secret sexuality--suggesting a heady compound of death and desire--Venice becomes for many writers what is was for Byron: both "the greenest island of my imagination" and a "sea-sodom." It also, as this book tries to show, plays a crucial role in the development of modern writing. Tanner skillfully lays before us the many ways in which this dreamlike city has been summoned up, depicted, dramatized--then rediscovered or transfigured in selected writings through the years.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Venice written by Professor Graham Holderness and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 166 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.
Download or read book Venice written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Venice Conspiracy written by Sam Christer and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When ex-priest Tom Shaman, jaded from years in the Los Angeles ghetto, decides on a last-minute trip to Venice, he gets much more than he expected. A brutal killer is on the loose and Tom finds himself in the midst of a series of ritualistic killings unlike anything Venice has ever seen. Enlisted by the Italian police, Tom teams up with young investigator Valentina Morassi to dig deep into the city's darkest history, stretching from an ancient civilization to the sexual decadence of eighteenth-century Italy to the gritty underworld of modern-day Venice. As Valentina and Tom trace the killings through the centuries, they uncover a deadly secret that generations have killed to protect: a priceless mosaic known as the Gates of Hell. As the clock counts down, Tom and Valentina's adventure builds to an astonishing and satisfying end. Exotic and well-researched, The Venice Conspiracy will continue to build Christer's name in the hit-thriller genre.
Download or read book Venetian Legends and Ghost Stories written by Alberto Toso Fei and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hellenics Gebir of Walter Savage Landor written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dialogues in verse Gebir Acts and scenes Hellenics written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
