100 Churches Of Venice And The Lagoon

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100 Churches of Venice and the Lagoon

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Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862087490
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book 100 Churches of Venice and the Lagoon written by and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth guide to Venetian culture and history through its houses of worship Begun in 2014 by Ecuadorian-born, New York-based photographer Alejandro Merizalde (born 1979), 100 Churches of Venice and the Lagoon documents religious temples from every sestiere of Venice and the smaller towns of the Venetian lagoon. What began as a small challenge of photographing just the Grand Canal's churches quickly grew in scope to include every neighborhood in the city. From Murano to Burano and Torcello, from Pellestrina to Chioggia, and deep into the northern lagoon to areas such as Lio Piccolo and Treporti, Merizalde photographed their respective churches whether they remained in service or were deconsecrated or repurposed. The layout of these images emphasizes the facade, relying on subtle repetitions for aesthetic continuity and balance. An essay by Marina Gasparini Lagrange combines her experience living in Venice with a poignant historical perspective.

Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon

Author : Richard J. Goy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521302753
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon written by Richard J. Goy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-09-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1985 historical study of a group of villages and one small town, that lie in the lagoons surrounding Venice.

Capturing Venice: Churches and bridges of Venice

Author : James Dugan
Publisher : Walkabout photo guides
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capturing Venice: Churches and bridges of Venice written by James Dugan and published by Walkabout photo guides. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning a trip to Venice? Want to know how to capture great photos of the iconic churches and bridges in Venice? Our travel photography guides are focused on the information you need. Inside, you’ll find: - Detailed maps and diagrams - Photos, including the DSLR camera settings and the exact location where the photo was taken - Logistical information to ensure that you’re at the right place at the right time - Ways to get the photo whilst avoiding the crowds This sub-guide is part of a bigger travel photography guide that covers all of Venice. Inside you'll find lots of specific tips for planning and the logistics of getting great photos of the churches and bridges of Venice. Our guides help you save valuable time in researching and planning, allowing you to focus on your photos.

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.

Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and Its Lagoon

Author : C. A. Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521840460
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and Its Lagoon written by C. A. Fletcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A technical volume exploring the prospects for decreasing the level of flooding in and around Venice.

Churches of Venice

Author : Alessandra Boccato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788877432728
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Churches of Venice written by Alessandra Boccato and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Venice Noir (Akashic Noir)

Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751189
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Venice Noir (Akashic Noir) written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Drifter” by Emily Mandel was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa Scottoline Original stories by: Peter James, Emily St. John Mandel, Barbara Baraldi, Mike Hodges, Mary Hoffman, Maria Tronca, Matteo Righetto, Tony Cartano, Francesco Ferracin, Isabella Santacroce, Michelle Lovric, Francesca Mazzucato, Maxim Jakubowski, and Michael Gregorio. "Forget the magnificence of Venice's art, architecture, and music, and delve into this tour of the City of Water's murky depths…visions of a Venice not seen in tourist brochures." --Publishers Weekly "Editor Jakubowski does an excellent job of selecting a variety of stories that represent all strata of Venetian life, from tourists visiting for Carnevale to criminals running illegal operations in the bay…A must-read for lovers of Venice…the presence of a new and intriguing voices, many of them Italian, will pique the interest of international-mystery readers." --Booklist "Sex, food and real estate inspire 14 hot-blooded new takes on crime in the magical city of Venice...Rather than crimes of passion, this collection focuses on the passion of crime, painting its noir in robust tones rather than gritty gray." --Kirkus Reviews "Venice Noir, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, aims to shred through our preconceptions of this remarkable city. The 14 writers featured in this anthology of short stories take our travel brochure images of Venice and scatter them like confetti." --NY Journal of Books Maxim Jakubowski is a British editor and writer. Following a long career in book publishing, during which he was responsible for several major crime imprints, he opened London's mystery bookshop Murder One. He reviews crime fiction for the Guardian, runs London's Crime Scene Festival, and is an advisor to Italy's annual Courmayeur Noir in Festival. His latest crime novel is Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer, and he edits the annual Best British Mysteries series.

Brunetti's Venice

Author : Toni Sepeda
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802199844
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Brunetti's Venice written by Toni Sepeda and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal). Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos. In Brunetti’s Venice, tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye, fascination with history, ear for language, passion for food, and familiarity with the dark realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walk across La Serenissima. Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon’s wonderful mysteries.

The Venice Variations

Author : Sophia Psarra
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787352390
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Venice Variations written by Sophia Psarra and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.

100 Places That Can Change Your Child's Life

Author : Keith Bellows
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426208766
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book 100 Places That Can Change Your Child's Life written by Keith Bellows and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids who learn to travel will travel to learn. National Geographic Traveler Editor Keith Bellows sends you and your children globetrotting for life-changing vacations that will expand their horizons and shape their perspectives. What you won’t find inside: predictable itineraries and lists of landmarks and events. Instead, you’ll get evocative, slice-of-life experiences and age-appropriate ideas that illuminate place and culture. Each chapter of 100 Places That Can Change Your Child’s Life plumbs the heart of a special place—from the Acropolis to Machu Picchu to the Grand Canyon—all from the perspective of insiders who see destinations through a child’s eyes. You’ll meet actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy, who tours the suqs of Marrakech with his seven-year-old son; photographer Annie Griffiths, who shares the miraculous migration to Mexico of the monarch butterflies; Tom Ritchie, who has guided countless children and parents to Antarctica for more than 30 years; the waterman who knows where to see the ponies of Assateague in the true wild; and countless others who are cultural treasures, great storytellers, and keepers of a sense of place. Packed with ideas to supplement the travel experience—foods, music, films, and carefully curated lists of kid-friendly activities and places to eat and stay—this inspiring book is the perfect trip planner to excite children about culture and the unique magic the world has to offer.

The Venice Lido

Author : Robin Saikia
Publisher : Travel Monograph
ISBN 13 : 9781905131501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Venice Lido written by Robin Saikia and published by Travel Monograph. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.

Venice, the Tourist Maze

Author : Robert C. Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520937802
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Venice, the Tourist Maze written by Robert C. Davis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-06-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed—a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare insight into just what it is that the touring and the toured see, experience, and elicit from each other.

A History of Women in 100 Objects

Author : Professor Maggie Andrews
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750987197
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A History of Women in 100 Objects written by Professor Maggie Andrews and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the world has been told in objects. But what about the objects that tell the history of women? What are the items that symbolise the journey of women from second-class citizens with no legal rights, no vote and no official status to the powerful people they are today? And what are the objects that still oppress women, even now? From the corset to the contraceptive pill, the bones of the first woman to Rosa Parks's mugshot and the iconic Mary Quant cape, A History of Women in 100 Objects documents the developing role of women in society through the lens of the inanimate objects that touched women's lives, were created by women or that at some time – perhaps even still – oppressed them. Woven by two leading historians, this complex, fascinating and vital tale of women and womanhood is told with a lightness of touch and depth of experience that will appeal to all those interested in women's history.

Venice on Foot

Author : Hugh A. Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Venice on Foot written by Hugh A. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gondola Maker

Author : Laura Morelli
Publisher : Laura Morelli
ISBN 13 : 098936710X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book The Gondola Maker written by Laura Morelli and published by Laura Morelli. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historical fiction set in 16th-century Venice -Benjamin Franklin Digital Award -IPPY Award for Best Adult Fiction E-book -National Indie Excellence Award Finalist -Eric Hoffer Award Finalist -Shortlisted for the da Vinci Eye Prize From the author of Made in Italy comes a tale of artisanal tradition and family bonds set in one of the world's most magnificent settings: Renaissance Venice. Venetian gondola-maker Luca Vianello considers his whole life arranged. His father charted a course for his eldest son from the day he was born, and Luca is positioned to inherit one of the city’s most esteemed boatyards. Soon he will marry the daughter of an artisan prow-maker, securing a key business alliance for the family. But when Luca experiences an unexpected tragedy in the boatyard, he believes that his destiny lies elsewhere. Soon he finds himself drawn to restore an antique gondola with the dream of taking a girl for a ride. The Gondola Maker brings the centuries-old art of gondola-making to life in the tale of a young man's complicated relationship with his master-craftsman father. Lovers of historical fiction will appreciate the authentic details of gondola craftsmanship, along with an intimate first-person narrative set against the richly textured backdrop of 16th-century Venice. "I'm a big fan of Venice, so I appreciate Laura Morelli's special knowledge of the city, the period, and the process of gondola-making. An especially compelling story." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun "Laura Morelli has done her research, or perhaps she was an Italian carpenter in another life. One can literally smell and feel the grain of finely turned wood in her hands." --Pamela Sheldon Johns, author of Italian Food Artisans "Romance, intrigue, family loyalty, pride, and redemption set against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy." --Library of Clean Reads "Beautiful, powerful evocation of the characters, the place, and the time. An elegant and thoroughly engaging narrative voice." --Mark Spencer, author of Fiction Club: A Concise Guide to Writing Good Fiction

Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic

Author : Magdalena Skoblar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840701
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic written by Magdalena Skoblar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative study re-positioning the Adriatic as a liminal region between different cultures and faiths before the heyday of Venice.

Venice

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571247881
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Venice written by Jan Morris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its architecture, its bridges, its tourists, its curiosities, its smells, sounds, lights and colours, there is scarcely a corner of Venice that Jan Morris has not investigated and brought vividly to life. Jan Morris first visited the city of Venice as young James Morris, during World War II. As she writes in the introduction, 'it is Venice seen through a particular pair of eyes at a particular moment - young eyes at that, responsive above all to the stimuli of youth.' Venice is an impassioned work on this magnificent but often maddening city. Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Sydney, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain and Manhattan '45. Since its first publication, Venice has appeared in many editions, won the W.H. Heinemann award and become an international bestseller. 'The best book about Venice ever written' Sunday Times 'No sensible visitor should visit the place without it . . . Venice stands alone as the essential introduction, and as a work of literature in its own right.' Observer