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Venice and the Biennale: itineraries of taste
Palazzo ducale (Venice, Italy)... Galleria dello Scudo Special thanks to the heirs of the Selvatico Estate for their generous assistance Grateful acknowledgments also to the following Diego Baldo, Ernesto Basile Rossana Bossaglia, Vanna Brega Giancarlo Cammi, Gabriella ...
Venice, the Artist's Vision: A Guide to British and American ...
Julian HalsbyHe worked in Venice in the 1890s. George Pettitt, worked 1850s and 1860s English landscape-painter who painted the Lake District and the lakes of Northern Italy. He worked in Venice in the 1850s and 1860s. Lawrence Barnett Phillips, ARE, ...
Provoked in Venice: The Rider Quintet
Mark RudmanThe title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both.
A History of Video Art
Chris Meigh-AndrewsCentro Video Arte Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara was the other significant centre of activity for video art in Italy. For example it was here that Fabrizio Plessi (1940, Italy) produced his first videotapes Acquabiografico (1973) and Travel ( 1974), ...
Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy, 1300-1600
Randolph StarnThree Halls of State in Italy, 1300-1600 Randolph Starn, Loren W. Partridge. tenberg, "Archaeology, Merriment, and Murder: The First Cortile of the Palazzo Vec- chio and Its Transformations in the Late Florentine Republic," Art Bulletin 71 ...
Venice
Jan Morris'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
Venice: A New History
Thomas F. MaddenAn extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years.
Access Florence & Venice 8e
Richard Saul WurmanIncluding extensive coverage of the warm Tuscan countryside and including some of the very best establishments to be found in Italy, this is every visitor – and local's – indispensable guide to two glorious cities.
A History of Venice
John Julius NorwichJohn Julius Norwich's dazzling history of Venice from its origins to its eighteenth century fall. 'Lord Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done.
Unlocking the World: Education in an Ethic of Hospitality
Claudia RuitenbergPaper presented at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy, June 2011. Retrieved from http://www .oca.no/programme/audiovisual/the-state- of-things-jacques-ranci-re 12. Rancière, “Does Democracy Mean Something?” 59.
Five centuries of music in Venice
Howard Chandler Robbins LandonEminent music historian H.C. Robbins Landon and acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich combine their talents in examining the unique role of music in the life of Venice and Venice in the life of music.
Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance
More editionsOriginally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L. King's distinct but interlocking scholarly interests: humanism and Venice; women and humanism; and women of the Italian ...
Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation
PreviewMARITIME WARFARE AND PIRACY THREE TEXTS ON GENOA AND VENICE ( 1380–1403) Translated from Italian by Eleanor Congdon, Michele Pietro Ghezzo, John R. Melville-Jones, and Andrea Rizzi 1. Gunpowder Introduced by Eleanor ...
Kiki Smith: the Venice story
Vivien BittencourtKiki Smith: The Venice Story is based on Vivien Bittencourt's and Vincent Katz's video about Kiki Smith's eight-room installation in 2005 at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice.
Five Centuries of Music in Venice
Howard Chandler Robbins LandonThis lavishly illustrated book examines the unique relationships between the life of Venice and the history of music.
Venice Condensed
Damien SimonisWith opinionated reviews, essential travel tips and detailed fold-out maps, Venice Condensed has all the information the discerning visitor needs - for one day or one month, for business or for pleasure.
The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe ...
PreviewMonique O'Connell Introduction 'What news on the Rialto?' This well-known phrase from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice evokes both Venice's centrality as a marketplace of goods and information and the prominent role merchants played ...
Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Loyal JonesOnce he was invited to the White House to perform for the visiting king and queen of England. He went abroad to Venice, Italy, and to England to perform before international audiences. Loyal Jones saw this festival movement rise in his home ...
Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an ...
PreviewOpera, 'Pestivity, and Spectacle in “Revolutionary” Venice Phantasrns of Time and History MARTHA FELDMAN As this chapter and the one by Claudio Povolo later in this volume make clear, the sudden capitulation in May 1 797 of the ...
Proust and Venice
Peter CollierThis study of Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) focuses on Venice, one of the hero's central obsessions, and shows how a whole network of allusions to art (from Titian to Turner, from Byzantine ...
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice
Thomas F. MaddenCulminating with the crisis precipitated by the failure of the Fourth Crusade, Madden's groundbreaking work reveals the extent to which Dandolo and his successors became torn between the anxieties and apprehensions of Venice's citizens and ...
Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State
Monique O'ConnellIn this institutional and administrative history, Monique O’Connell explains the structures, processes, practices, and laws by which Venice maintained its vast overseas holdings.
Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State
Monique O'ConnellIn this institutional and administrative history, Monique O’Connell explains the structures, processes, practices, and laws by which Venice maintained its vast overseas holdings.
Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women ...
PreviewNineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy Alison Chapman, Jane Stabler. 'Amiable. but. determined. autocracy': Margaret. Oliphant,. Venice,. and. the. inheritance. of. Ruskin. Francis. O'Gorman. John Ruskin's The Stones of ...
The Merchant of Venice of William Shakespeare
S.S. AgarwallaS.S. Agarwalla. The Merchant of Venice bases its dramatic logic on the New Testament premise that you get what you give, ... Dr. Shyam S. Agarwalla gives a new approach, a new presentation and a new direction to the reading and critical ...
Fifty Years of Failed Plans: Venice, Humanism, and the Turks ...
Seth Parry106 Ruthy Gertwagen, “The Contribution of Venice's Colonies to its Naval Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Fifteenth Century,” La rivista mediterranea. ricerche storiche: mediterraneo in armi (secc. XV-XVIII), 4 (2007): 123.
Venice in the east Adriatic: experiences and experiments in ...
Suzanne Mariko MillerOther scholarly works on the treatment of the Dalmatian and 10 Monique E. O' Connell. "Venice Outside the Lagoon: Politics and Local Administration in Fifteenth- Century Venetian Crete" (Ph. D. Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2002), p.
A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of ...
PreviewDigital Production: Michael Radford's Film Version of The Merchant of Venice Thomas Cartelli In his chapter on The Merchant of Venice in Shakespeare: The Invention ofthe Human, Harold Bloom claims that “the ontological weight of Shylock, ...
Representing Italy Through Food
PreviewList of figures ix Notes on contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Editors' Introduction: Presenting food, representing Italy Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak , and Elgin K. Eckert 1 PART ONE (Re)presenting iconic Italy 1 And at last, the farmers win ...
John Virtue: London, Venice Monotypes
John VirtueIn 2006 Marlborough invited John Virtue to participate in an annual Artists International Print Project, run by Paupers Press, at the Scuola de Grafica in Venice.
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