Venice Synagogues
Title | Venice Synagogues PDF eBook |
Author | Umberto Fortis |
Publisher | Assouline Publishing |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 2016-03-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1614280525 |
Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Venice Ghetto, this magnificent hand-bound Ultimate Collection volume introduces readers to the beauty and historical and spiritual significance of the five principal synagogues in Venice, the most important markers of Jewish faith and culture in the Most Serene Republic. Behind the walls of the Ghetto, Venetian Jews expressed strong ties to the traditions of their forefathers in constructing these beautiful places of worship. The architecture, furnishings, and decorations blended the memory of their different countries of origin with traditions of Venetian artistic culture, bequeathing the City on the Lagoon enduring monuments of unparalleled eminence that remain sites of reverence and admiration.
Sargent's Venice
Title | Sargent's Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Adelson |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300117175 |
Den amerikanske kunstner John Singer Sargents (1856-1925) skildringer af Venedig.
The Venice Myth
Title | The Venice Myth PDF eBook |
Author | David Barnes |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317317505 |
Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.
Venice's Secret Service
Title | Venice's Secret Service PDF eBook |
Author | Ioanna Iordanou |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2019-10-24 |
Genre | Intelligence service |
ISBN | 0198791313 |
Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.
Shakespeare and Venice
Title | Shakespeare and Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Holderness |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317056310 |
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.
Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400 1600
Title | Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400 1600 PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Partridge |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2015-03-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520281799 |
"A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of Venetian Renaissance architecture, sculpture, and painting created between 1400 and 1600 addressed to students, travellers, and the general public. The works of art are analysed within Venice's cultural circumstances--political, economic, intellectual, and religious--and in terms of function, style, iconography, patronage, classical sources, gender, art theories, and artist's innovations, rivalries, and social status. The text has been divided into two parts--the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century--each part preceded by an introduction that recounts the history of Venice to 1500 and to 1600 respectively, including the city's founding, ideology, territorial expansion, social classes, governmental structure, economy, and religion. The twenty-six chapters have been organized to lead readers systematically through the major artistic developments within the three principal categories of art--governmental, ecclesiastic, and domestic--and have been arranged sequentially as follows: civic architecture and urbanism, churches, church decoration (ducal tombs and altarpieces), refectories and refectory decoration (section two only), confraternities (architecture and decoration), palaces, palace decoration (devotional works, portraits, secular painting, and halls of state), villas, and villa decoration. The conclusion offers an overview of the major types of Venetian art and architectural patronage and their funding sources"--Provided by publisher.
Venice Art City
Title | Venice Art City PDF eBook |
Author | Enrico Massetti |
Publisher | Enrico Massetti Publishing |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2021-06-30 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 100593682X |
This guide illustrates the art city of Venice, for a visit lasting two, three, or more days. It has descriptions and photos of the attractions, including the Lagoon Islands of Murano, Burano, and Torcello, arranged along a logical itinerary to visit the city. Detailed maps illustrate the itinerary of the visit. It also describes all the transportation means available to reach Venice.