Piazza San Marco
by Fenlon, Iain
The Piazza San Marco, one of the most famous and instantly recognizable townscapes in the West, if not the world, has been described as a stage set, as Europes drawing room, as a painters canvas. This book traces the changing shape and function of the piazza, from its beginnings in the ninth century to its present day ubiquity in the Venetian, European, as well as global imagination.--from publisher description.
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- Full title :Piazza San Marco / Iain Fenlon.
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The Piazza San Marco, one of the most famous and instantly recognizable townscapes in the West, if not the world, has been described as a stage set, as Europes drawing room, as a painters canvas. This book traces the changing shape and function of the piazza, from its beginnings in the ninth century to its present day ubiquity in the Venetian, European, as well as global imagination.--from publisher description.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 233 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674027916, 0674027914, 9780674066069, 0674066065
- oclc:ocn311262941
- LC Classification:NA9072.V45
- Dewey Decimal:945/.311
Table of Contents
Myths and origins -- Imperial visions -- The new Rome -- Ritual forms -- Urban noise -- Decadence and decline -- From Spritz to Pink Floyd -- Appendix 1. Doges of Venice -- Appendix 2. Visiting the Piazza.
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