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Venice: City of Pictures

Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 050077837X
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Venice: City of Pictures written by Martin Gayford and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as, “La Serenissima”—a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art. Enchanting, captivating, precious—Venice is one of the most cherished cities in the world. For centuries it was the heart of a global maritime power and a crossroads for diverse cultures. Today the city attracts millions of visitors each year, enticed by its irresistible beauty. Art lovers are drawn here by the paintings, prints, drawings, and films made by generations of artists who have captured its magical allure. It is through images—both of the city and the art created there—that Venice’s identity has been forged and spread so powerfully. Venice was a major center of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements of the Bellini brothers, Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese are a key part of this story. Nowhere else has been depicted by so many great painters in so many diverse styles and moods. Venetian views were a specialty of native artists such as Canaletto and Francesco Guardi, but the city has also been represented by outsiders: William Turner, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Howard Hodgkin, and many more. Then there are those who came to look at and write about art. The reactions of Henry James, George Eliot, Richard Wagner, and others enrich this tale. Nor is the story over. Since the advent of the Venice Biennale in the 1890s, the city has become a shop window for the contemporary art of the whole world. In this elegant volume, Martin Gayford takes us on a visual journey through the past five centuries of the city known as “La Serenissima,” the “Most Serene.”

Venice Picture Book - Venice Photography

Author : Jana Villaneuva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781730741241
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Venice Picture Book - Venice Photography written by Jana Villaneuva and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice Picture Book - Venice Photography 100+ Amazing Pictures and Photos in this fantastic Venice Photo Book Experience amazing Venice photos and be transported to this enticing city in this amazing Venice Photo Book. "Venice feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place." - Elizabeth Berkley Venice is a city that feels alive with breath-taking sights and with irresistible beauty; the whole city is stunning; every inch filled with miraculous sights. The magnificence of the city is addictive and palpable, felt everywhere, on every street corner and in every canal...And that amazing energy is captured in this beautiful book. From the golden beauty of St. Mark's Basilica, to the dazzling grandeur of the Doge's Palace, to the antithesis that is the bustling, striking Rialto Bridge; from the romance of the gondola and the Grand Canal to the astonishing colors of Murano and Burano, this book captures the stunning essence of the city. Get It Now Get this amazing Venice pictures book now, because Venice is truly one of the world's most incredible cities and this book captures this wonderful city in all its grandeur. Get it now so you can start being transported there and enjoy the awe-inspiring Venice like never before. After Your Purchase, take a look at, fall in love with, and get our other amazing picture books: Paris Picture Book - Paris Photography Rome Picture Book - Rome Photography Italy Picture Book - Italy Photography Greece Photos Book - Greece Photography Israel Picture Book - Israel Photography Egypt Picture Book - Egypt in Pictures London Photo Bok - London Photography Prague Picture Book - Prague Photography China Picture Book - China Photography India Picture Book - India Photography

Sarah Hadley: Lost Venice

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Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862087063
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Sarah Hadley: Lost Venice written by and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LA photographer Sarah Hadley's nostalgic photographs of Venice's architecture and fragility Los Angeles-based photographer Sarah Hadley's series Lost Venice is a haunting portrayal of Venice through a personal lens of loss and nostalgia. Channeling the ethereal nature of the city, Hadley alludes to the premature loss of her father, who introduced her to Italy as a child.

Venice Deserted

Author : Luc Carton
Publisher : Jonglez Photo Books
ISBN 13 : 9782361954819
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (548 download)

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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.

Venice

Author : Elayne Alexander
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738569673
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Venice written by Elayne Alexander and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Venice

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Venice written by Christopher Hibbert and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchants and crusaders - Travellers and imperialists - Empire in danger - Venice of Martin Sanudo - Defeats and triumphs - Artists and architects - Ambassadors and visitors - Conspirators and enemies - Venice of the eighteenth century - Napoleonic interlude - Romantic response - Daniele Manin and the New Republic - City under Siege - Venice of the Ruskins - Tourists and Exiles - Venetian Nocturne.; Religious festivals including The Redentore, The Salute and others - Carnivals - Costume - Theatre.

Venice from the Ground Up

Author : James H. S. McGregor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040848
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Venice from the Ground Up written by James H. S. McGregor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice came to life on spongy mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from barbarian invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen, salt gatherers, and traders who settled there crafted an amphibious way of life unlike anything the Roman Empire had ever known. In an astonishing feat of narrative history, James H. S. McGregor recreates this world-turned-upside-down, with its waterways rather than roads, its boats tethered alongside dwellings, and its livelihood harvested from the sea. McGregor begins with the river currents that poured into the shallow Lagoon, carving channels in its bed and depositing islands of silt. He then describes the imaginative responses of Venetians to the demands and opportunities of this harsh environment—transforming the channels into canals, reclaiming salt marshes for the construction of massive churches, erecting a thriving marketplace and stately palaces along the Grand Canal. Through McGregor’s eyes, we witness the flowering of Venice’s restless creativity in the elaborate mosaics of St. Mark’s soaring basilica, the expressive paintings in smaller neighborhood churches, and the colorful religious festivals—but also in theatrical productions, gambling casinos, and masked revelry, which reveal the city’s less pious and orderly face. McGregor tells his unique history of Venice by drawing on a crumbling, tide-threatened cityscape and a treasure-trove of art that can still be seen in place today. The narrative follows both a chronological and geographical organization, so that readers can trace the city’s evolution chapter by chapter and visitors can explore it district by district on foot and by boat.

Venezia

Author : Serge Simonart
Publisher : Hannibal
ISBN 13 : 9789463887502
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Venezia written by Serge Simonart and published by Hannibal. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - An homage to the most sensual city on earth, illustrated with vintage photographs, prints, and ephemera - Available in English for the first time This love letter in photographs to the unique beauty and mystery of Venice is an evocative compilation of vintage photographs, prints, and ephemera. It is a tactile ode to the sensuality of the city, filled to the brim with all manner of Venetian memorabilia: 19th century photographs, engravings, hand-colored magic lantern slides, vintage postcards, old luggage labels, keys from long-lost luxury hotels, golden ducats from the 18th century, Carnival ball invitations. With gilt-edged pages and antique Venetian lettering, it is not a travel or walking guide, but an atmospheric pilgrimage that pays homage to this ever-fascinating city. Serge Simonat's engaging commentary on Venetian history and culture introduces each subject with affection and insight. "Every day, a nervous traveler visiting the City of Doges for the first time asks the best way to get to their hotel. 'The shortest or the most beautiful?', I once heard the concierge at Hotel Des Bains ask. The tourist who opted for the most beautiful route is still wandering around the city. This is a unique photobook in which to wander and lose oneself." - Serge Simonart

Serenissima

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Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9781555952938
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Serenissima written by and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new book, Serenissima: Venice in Winter, Frank Van Riper and Judith Goodman provide a stunning combination of fine art and journalistic photography twinned with lyrical text to capture the visual magic that occurs when "the most serene republic" reclaims itself as a living, breathing city and once more becomes a place "of water-filled streets..velvet shadows and footsteps echoing off paving stones in the post-midnight silence..." Six years in the making and shot entirely in black and white, Serenissima: Venice in Winter combines brilliant architectural imagery with documentary photography in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and the great Italian photojournalist Gianni Berengo Gardin. Frank Van Riper's text shows the same literary mastery that won him a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and reflects the dreamlike quality of the photographs, while also acknowledging the mystery and magic that Venice is famous for. AUTHOR: Frank Van Riper and Judith Goodman are a husband-and-wife team whose speciality is location portraiture and documentary photography. Goodman's photographs have appeared in Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art and in the Baltimore Museum. Van Riper's photographs are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American Art, and Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine. He now writes 'Frank Van Riper on Photography,' a column that appears exclusively and worldwide on Washingtonpost.com, making him the most widely read photography writer in the United States. SELLING POINTS: Over 90 photographs of this historic and romantic city as it is rarely captured, during the winter's mist and rain Of interest to any collector of fine art photography, travelers, and lovers of Italy 92 b/w photos

Art in Venice

Author : Stefano Zuffi
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810981737
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Art in Venice written by Stefano Zuffi and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art in Venice is a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive collection of the painting, architecture, sculpture, mosaic, glass, and gold work of one of the world's most romantic, beautiful, and historically rich cities. The book is organized in a straightforward chronological fashion: divided into major periods of Venetian history, each section including historical and cultural information, as well as the exact location of each artwork and biographies of each of the artists discussed. Including over 500 masterpieces from the eight to the twentieth century, the book features the art of such important Venetian masters as Bellini, Mantegna, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto.

The Pursuit of Art

Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774889
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Art written by Martin Gayford and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayfords journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, which he makes as much a part of the story as the final destination. Entertaining and informative, Gayford includes trips to see Brancusis Endless Column in Romania, prehistoric cave art in France, the museum island of Naoshima in Japan, the Judd Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and a Roni Horn work in Iceland. Interwoven with these accounts are journeys to meet artists Robert Rauschenberg in New York, Marina Abramovic in Venice, Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris or travels with artists, such as a trip to Beijing with Gilbert & George. These encounters not only provide insights into the way artists approach and think about their art but also reveal the importance of their personal environments. And in the process, Gayford discusses how these meetings have impacted on his own evolving ideas and tastes.

The Image of the City

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Venice: Lion City

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671047647
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Venice: Lion City written by Garry Wills and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Wills's acclaimed book presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. Illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color.

Venice

Author : Cees Nooteboom
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529402565
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Venice written by Cees Nooteboom and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You might think there is little new to say about Venice, but Cees Nooteboom strolls down many under-explored alleyways in the city, his insights coloured by his knowledge of art and literature as welll as his past experiences . . . Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide" The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless city about which everything has been said" ALBERTO MANGUEL "The whole book is the illuminating testimony of a man who cannot look away and so sees things that others, even those with more specialist knowledge, have missed, whether it be the color and consistency of the ropes on the vaporetti, the glistening hues and squirming movements of the fish at the market, or the wondrous effects that Tintoretto could achieve with dabs of white in 'the gleam of armour, the folds in a sleeve, the windings of a turban, the halo of a man of the air who, as in the Last Judgment, is flying through space, in a wide flowing cloak . . .'" GREGORY DOWLING, Wall Street Journal VENICE: "A dream of palaces and churches, of power and money, dominion and decline, a paradise of beauty." By the author of Roads to Santiago and Roads to Berlin With this treasury of his time spent in Venice over a period of fifty-five years, Nooteboom makes himself the indispensable companion for all lovers of "the sailing, amphibious city", and for every new visitor. Because he is a master storyteller with an inexhaustible curiosity, and always with a suitcase of books (to which new discoveries are added), he brings vividly and poetically to life not only the tumultuous history of the Republic but along the way its doges, its villains, its heroes, its magnificent painters, its architects, its scholars, its skies, its canals and piazzas and alleyways, and on his expeditions its "bronze voices of time". Those who know and love this city and its literature will recognise Nooteboom - in Laura Watkinson's fine translation - as the dazzling heir and companion to Montaigne, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Ruskin, Proust, Brodsky, and Donna Leon. His homage to Venice is a generous introduction, learned and enchanting, and worthy of its magnificent subject. "His writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and memory" - COLIN THUBRON Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson

Inventing the World

Author : Meredith Small
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135392
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the World written by Meredith Small and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social. Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta. But Venice is far from a historic relic or a life-sized museum. It is a living city that still embraces its innovative roots. As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the front lines of preserving its legacy and cultural history to inspire a new generation of innovators.

History of Pictures

Author : David Hockney
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9781419750281
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book History of Pictures written by David Hockney and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact edition of Hockney and Gayford's brilliantly original book, with updated material and brand-new pieces of art Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing, and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. Juxtaposing a rich variety of images--a still from a Disney cartoon with a Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige, a scene from an Eisenstein film with a Velazquez paint-ing--the authors cross the normal boundaries between high culture and popular entertainment, and argue that film, photography, paint-ing, and drawing are deeply interconnected. Featuring a revised final chapter with some of Hockney's latest works, this new, compact edition of A History of Pictures remains a significant contribution to the discussion of how artists represent reality.

Shaping the World

Author : Antony Gormley
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500022674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping the World written by Antony Gormley and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pairing one of the world’s greatest sculptors with one of today’s greatest writers on art, Shaping the World tells the story of human culture from prehistory to the present through the medium of sculpture. Practiced by every culture throughout the history of the world, sculpture is a universal art form that’s deeply rooted in the human psyche and may even predate the advent of language. In this wide-ranging book, internationally renowned sculptor Antony Gormley and distinguished art critic Martin Gayford consider sculpture as an art form related to humanity’s potential for thought and feeling, as well as to our urge to build, make pictures, practice religion, and develop philosophical thought. They take into account materials and techniques and consider overarching themes, such as space, light, and darkness. Drawing on examples from around the globe—ranging from the standing stones at Stenness, Orkney, dating from around 3100 BCE, and the Terracotta Army in China to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Richard Serra’s steel structures—Shaping the World explores sculpture as a form of physical thought capable of altering the way people feel.