|
Item Number: 123938
Title: Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories, 1450-1750 : Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard
Author: Avcioglu, Nebahat ; Emma Jones (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472410825
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 287pp., 16 color, 72 b&w illus. Contents: Preface; Introduction, Nebahat Avcioglu and Emma Jones; Section 1 Identity, Space and the City: ‘ Soli deo honor et gloria’? Cittadino lay procurator patronage and the art of identity formation in Renaissance Venice, Allison Sherman; The Sisters Sagredo: passion and patronage in 18th-century Venice, Esther Gabel. Section 2 Drawing, Mapping and Translating Venice: The early history of Jacopo Sansovino’s scheme for Piazza San Marco: a proposal, Paul Davies; Venice 1557: Sabbadino’s city plan, Elena Svalduz; Translatio Longhena Salute: drawings and patrons in pilgrimage between Venice, Rome and Gostyn, Andrew Hopkins. Section 3 Palladio’s Creations and Creating Palladio: The twin sacristy arrangement of Palladio’s Venice: origins and adaptations, Lydia Hamlett; Palladio’s patrons and music. Connections between cultural interests and architecture: the Villa Pisani at Bagnolo, Laura Moretti; How Palladio became famous: Paolo Gualdo and the Republic of Letters, Tracy E. Cooper. Section 4 The Production of Sacred Space: The 17th-century project for the church of San Nicolò del Lido in Venice: liturgical problems and new architectural models in the counter-Reformation, Massimo Bisson; Innovation or afterthought? Dating the San Giobbe retrochoir, Joanne Allen; Venice’s cathedral of San Pietro di Castello 1451-1630, Gianmario Guidarelli. Section 5 Time and Place in the Stato da Mar: The topography of antiquity in descriptions of Venetian Crete, Johanna D. Heinrichs; Jacopo Foscarini, Francesco Barozzi and the oracles of Leo the Wise, Blake de Maria; Becoming a man of empire: the construction of patrician identity in a republic of equals, Patricia Fortini Brown.
We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available.
Please contact us if you need additional assistance.
P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US
Phone: 845-331-8519
Fax: 845-331-0852
Email: michael@artbooks.com