Venice And The Cultural Imagination
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Venice and the Cultural Imagination
Author | : Michael O'Neill,Mark Sandy,Sarah Wootton |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317322597 |
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In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice’s appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.
Venice and the Cultural Imagination
Author | : Michael O'Neill,Mark Sandy,Sarah Wootton |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317322603 |
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In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice’s appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
Author | : Dana E. Katz |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2017-08-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781107165144 |
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This book explores how the Jewish ghetto engaged the sensory imagination of Venice in complex and contradictory ways to shape urban space and reshape Christian-Jewish relations.
The Venetian Discovery of America
Author | : Elizabeth Horodowich |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107150874 |
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Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
John Ruskin the Pre Raphaelites and Religious Imagination
Author | : Sheona Beaumont,Madeleine Emerald Thiele |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2023-06-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783031215544 |
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This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice. The volume unveils the importance of John Ruskin’s writing for today’s audience, and allies it with the dynamism of the Pre-Raphaelite religious imagination. Ruskin’s drawings and daguerreotypes, as well as Pre-Raphaelite paintings, stained glass, and engravings, are shown to be alive with visual theology: artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and Evelyn de Morgan illuminate aspects of faith and aesthetics. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume encourages reflection upon praise, truth, and beauty. The aesthetic conversations between Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves become a form of ‘sacra conversazione’.
The Venice Variations
Author | : Sophia Psarra |
Publsiher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2018-04-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781787352391 |
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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.
The Venice Myth
Author | : David Barnes |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317317500 |
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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
Author | : Martin Garrett |
Publsiher | : Signal Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1902669290 |
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Martin Garrett explores the extraordinary history, art and architecture of Venice and the islands of the lagoon. Looking at the legacy of the city's Jewish, Greek, Slav and Armenian minorities, he recalls the exploits of such legendary figures as Casanova and Byron. He also assesses the successful struggle to preserve the city in the face of flood and corruption, and its important modern role as host of the Biennale and film festival.MARTIN GARRETT is the author of literary companions to Italy and Greece, and has written or edited a number of works on Renaissance and nineteenth-century writers, including Sidney, Byron and the Brownings