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Book Synopsis The Spirit of Venice by : Paul Strathern
Download or read book The Spirit of Venice written by Paul Strathern and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new history of Venice, which looks at the lives of the famous individuals of the Republic to try and define its character.
Book Synopsis In the Spirit of Venice by : Alexis Gregory
Download or read book In the Spirit of Venice written by Alexis Gregory and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside view of Venice from bon vivant, art historian, author, musician, and world traveler Alexis Gregory, evoking the great palaces of Venice, legendary friends including Peggy Guggenheim, Lily Volpi, and Arrigo Cipriani, and great Venetian figures of the past such as the mad Marchesa Casati, the Sapphic muse Princess Winnaretta de Polignac, and the spoiled Charles de Besteigui. In this illustrated book, the city's emblematic characters, places, and events come alive.
Download or read book Soul of Venice written by Servane Giol and published by Soul Of'. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tried 1,000 places. And included only the 30 best. 30 unforgettable experiences that capture the soul of Venice. Every guide in the "Soul of" collection includes: - the 30 best experiences a city has to offer - interviews with those who give the city its spirit - illustrations that capture the city's soul
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
Download or read book City of Fortune written by Roger Crowley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. “[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page.”—The New York Times “Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice’s past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.”—The Wall Street Journal
Book Synopsis The Souls of Venice by : Janet Sethre
Download or read book The Souls of Venice written by Janet Sethre and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is a life defined by a city, and a city by the lives within? Where do an individual and a culture coincide? Perhaps more than any city in the world, Venice inspires these questions and suggests intriguing answers. This book focuses on people who have been shaped by Venice and have shaped Venice in their turn. The author considers them in five groups: the "mutilated culture heroes" (e.g., the eunuch Narses), who despite or because of some great sacrifice helped the city define itself and its mission; the "fugitives from splendor" (e.g., St. Pietro Orseolo or El Greco), so overwhelmed by beauty that they fled the city; the "prisoners of Venice"-the convicts, the cloistered, the mad; the "symbiotics," who lived in close communion with the city for long periods of time (e.g., Titian) and the "fugitives from self" (e.g., Igor Stravinsky), who have come from elsewhere seeking a new identity, and who ended up helping to create a new identity for the city itself. More than a collection of biographies, this richly textured and insightful work examines the roots of people's "Venice-ness" as well as the city's own humanity.
Book Synopsis Sargent's Venice by : Warren Adelson
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 Synopsis The Stones of Venice - Volume I: The Foundations by : John Ruskin
Download or read book The Stones of Venice - Volume I: The Foundations written by John Ruskin and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than simply a survey of an ancient city's most significant buildings, The Stones of Venice first published in three volumes between 1851 and 1853 is an expression of a philosophy of art, nature, and morality that goes beyond art history, and has inspired such thinkers as Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Mahatma Gandhi. Volume I, intended as the groundwork for the author's subsequent architectural teaching, provides a brief history of Venice and an analysis of architecture s functional and ornamental aspects. Unabridged, and containing Ruskin s original drawings, this guide to the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic implications of architecture will be appreciated by students and scholars alike. The preeminent art critic of his time, British writer JOHN RUSKIN (1819 1900) had a profound influence upon European painting, architecture, and aesthetics of the 19th and 20th centuries. His immense body of literary works include Modern Painters, Volume I IV (1843 1856); The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849); Unto This Last (1862); Munera Pulveris (1862 3); The Crown of Wild Olive (1866); Time and Tide (1867); and Fors Clavigera (1871-84)."
Book Synopsis The Venice Variations by : Sophia Psarra
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.
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Republic of Venice by : William George Waters
Download or read book The Rise of the Republic of Venice written by William George Waters and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stones of Venice [introductions] by : John Ruskin
Download or read book Stones of Venice [introductions] written by John Ruskin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stones of Venice [introductions]" by John Ruskin examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing, for example over eighty churches. Ruskin discusses the architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance periods and provides a general history of the city. In this book, readers are introduced to some of Venice's most famous places, like St. Mark's square and the Ducal Palace and allowed readers from around the world the chance to experience these architectural marvels at a distance.
Download or read book Venice written by Mary Sturge Gretton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a travel guide but not as one would think of one today. The author focuses very much on how Venice has inspired artists and poets over the centuries. She has devoted chapters to Venice as a place of pilgrimage, the Venetian waterways and the festivals of Venice among other things.
Download or read book Venice written by Horatio Forbes Brown and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Syllabi for the Academic Years ... by : American Society for the Extension of University Teaching
Download or read book Syllabi for the Academic Years ... written by American Society for the Extension of University Teaching and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Stones of Venice: The foundations. 1858. -v.2. The sea-stories. 1867. -v.3. The fall. 1867. -v.4. General index. 1892 by : John Ruskin
Download or read book The Stones of Venice: The foundations. 1858. -v.2. The sea-stories. 1867. -v.3. The fall. 1867. -v.4. General index. 1892 written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruskin, one of the most influential art critics of the 19th century, wrote more than half a million words on Venice. This is an abridged version of his opus, which still contains the essence of his original work, for those who would appreciate Venice, architecture and Ruskin's fine writing.
Download or read book Venice written by Beryl D. De Sélincourt and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “The” Stones of Venice by : John Ruskin
Download or read book “The” Stones of Venice written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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