The Souls Of Venice
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Venice
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Author : Janet Sethre
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Release Date : 2020-01-08
Venice written by Janet Sethre and has been published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-08 with categories.
This richly textured work examines Venetians’ “Venice-ness” and the city’s humanity. A cultural history wide in scope and original in conception, it explores how people have been shaped by Venice and, in turn, have shaped the city. Meet culture heroes whose defects have helped Venice define its myth and fugitives from the city’s splendor, such as El Greco. Venice’s prisoners numbered cloistered women, the mad, and Jews of the Ghetto. People living in close, durable symbiosis with Venice included Titian, and those fugitives from self who sought wholeness in Venice included Stravinsky.
The Souls Of Venice
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Author : Janet Sethre
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2003-01-01
The Souls Of Venice written by Janet Sethre and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
How is a life defined by a city, and a city by the lives within? Where do an individual and a culture coincide? Perhaps more than any city in the world, Venice inspires these questions and suggests intriguing answers. This book focuses on people who have been shaped by Venice and have shaped Venice in their turn. The author considers them in five groups: the "mutilated culture heroes" (e.g., the eunuch Narses), who despite or because of some great sacrifice helped the city define itself and its mission; the "fugitives from splendor" (e.g., St. Pietro Orseolo or El Greco), so overwhelmed by beauty that they fled the city; the "prisoners of Venice"-the convicts, the cloistered, the mad; the "symbiotics," who lived in close communion with the city for long periods of time (e.g., Titian) and the "fugitives from self" (e.g., Igor Stravinsky), who have come from elsewhere seeking a new identity, and who ended up helping to create a new identity for the city itself. More than a collection of biographies, this richly textured and insightful work examines the roots of people's "Venice-ness" as well as the city's own humanity.
B P R D The Soul Of Venice
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Author : Michael Avon Oeming
language : en
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)
Release Date : 2011-11-23
B P R D The Soul Of Venice written by Michael Avon Oeming and has been published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-23 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Miles Gunter and Michael Avon Oeming, creators of _Bastard Samurai_, kick off a series of new adventures featuring Mike Mignola's team of paranormal investigators in _B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice_! Something's wrong with the water in Venicesomething so unusual that the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense have come to investigate. Exploding statues of a local goddess lead them to the haunted mansion of an ancient vampire and a grand marquis of hell. Mike Mignola lends a hand with the writing on this action-packed and eerie one-shot, with a cover by _Powers_ artist Michael Avon Oeming.
Soul Of Venice
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Author : Servane Giol
language : en
Publisher: Soul Of'
Release Date : 2020-11-07
Soul Of Venice written by Servane Giol and has been published by Soul Of' this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-07 with Travel categories.
We tried 1,000 places. And included only the 30 best. 30 unforgettable experiences that capture the soul of Venice. Every guide in the "Soul of" collection includes: - the 30 best experiences a city has to offer - interviews with those who give the city its spirit - illustrations that capture the city's soul
Soul Of Venice
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Author : Frederica and Arthur Steinberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-29
Soul Of Venice written by Frederica and Arthur Steinberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-29 with categories.
Venice, portrayed in all her beauty, mystery, and hidden secrets . . . Set in 2006, this novel follows twenty-five-year-old architect Pietro Contarini, descendant of a Venetian patrician family, as he struggles to find his place in the world of his ancestors and in modern-day Venice. He has a lucrative job with Vittorio Pisani, an ambitious real-estate developer. Over the course of three months, Pietro's encounters with Alessandro Zane and Maddalena Bocchese influence his decisions. Zane, a shrewd merchant, returns from Beirut with a plan to reinvigorate the city and its culture against countervailing forces. But is this his real goal? And Maddalena, a beautiful and sophisticated painting restorer, believes in the Myth of Venice, stories that elevate the city to its God-ordained place. Pietro's dead grandfather, Francesco Contarini, who speaks to him periodically, shares this belief. But Pietro rejects this mythic view. After all, he lives in the "real" world and is leaving for Rome, where a job waits for him. Beyond Pietro's unfolding story, the reader is treated to many fascinating aspects of Venice: her glorious history, famous merchants and painters of centuries past, the crafts of Venice, and the complicated canal system. And of course, the everpresent and seamy aspects of real-estate development and corruption.Through an intriguing story and remarkable color photographs, The Soul of Venice offers a rare glimpse into the workings of this unique place, a largely preserved medieval city that is built on the water and that stands out like a jewel in the world's landscape.
Soul Of Venice
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Author : Frederica Steinberg
language : en
Publisher: Meraviglia Press
Release Date : 2019-12-12
Soul Of Venice written by Frederica Steinberg and has been published by Meraviglia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A novel about Pietro, a young architect, trying to find his way through the dense world of Venetian history. His discussions with Maddalena, his love, and Zane, a very canny developer interested in restoring Venice to its former glory, work on his conscience. All is finally settled when Pietro visits the family's local church.
Bprd The Soul Of Venice
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Author : Michael Mignola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Bprd The Soul Of Venice written by Michael Mignola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Horror comic books, strips, etc categories.
B P R D Volume 2 The Soul Of Venice And Other Stories
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Author : Mike Mignola
language : en
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Release Date : 2004-08-24
B P R D Volume 2 The Soul Of Venice And Other Stories written by Mike Mignola and has been published by Dark Horse Comics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-24 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
After holding it a secret for ten years, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola finally reveals Abe Sapien's bizarre history. Introduced in the first Hellboy book and featured prominently in the film, Abe Sapien has remained one of the most intriguing mysteries of Mignola's celebrated work. The Hellboy film steered clear of any origin story for Abe so that the tale could be told in Plague of Frogs. The story of Abe's origins unfolds as the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense try to stop the monstrous frog men from the first Hellboy graphic novel, Seed of Destruction. The plague begins its spread across America, lending an apocalyptic new direction to Mignola's stories. • Collects the five-issue miniseries. • With art by Guy Davis and a behind-the-scenes look at his sketchbook, this third volume of B.P.R.D. sees Mignola taking over writing chores for the first time and reveals secrets he's kept under wraps since the beginning of the Hellboy saga, and changes that world completely.
The Book Of Venice
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Author : Elisabetta Baldisserotto
language : en
Publisher: Comma Press
Release Date : 2021-05-27
The Book Of Venice written by Elisabetta Baldisserotto and has been published by Comma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Fiction categories.
An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.
The Spirit Of Venice
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Author : Paul Strathern
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-05-03
The Spirit Of Venice written by Paul Strathern and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-03 with Art categories.
The Spirit of Venice is a history of the first great economic and naval power of the modern Western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through the arc of its glory - when its trading empire reached as far afield as China, Syria and West Africa - to the beginning of its long and fascinating decline. Told through the lives of the brilliant and often wayward individuals who are inextricably bound to the Republic, this is the story of the Venice of Marco Polo, Titian, Tintoretto, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Casanova, and a scintillating array of equally captivating heroes and villains. It reveals a vibrant city of invention, which pioneered banking, presided over the first bond-market crash, and whose renowned Arsenal became the world's first assembly line. And while Venice had no Statue of Liberty or mother of parliaments, it was for many years the nearest the modern western world came to a liberal democracy. Gloriously rich with detail and intrigue, The Spirit of Venice constitutes a refreshing and authoritative new way into the history of the most evocative of cities.