The Venice Myth
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Myths Of Venice
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Author : David Rosand
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Myths Of Venice written by David Rosand and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Art categories.
Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance. Never conquered and taking its enduring independence as a sign of divine favor, free of civil strife and proud of its internal stability, Venice broadcast the image of itself as the Most Serene Republic, an ideal state whose ruling patriciate were selflessly devoted to the commonweal. All this has come to be known as the "myth of Venice." Exploring the imagery developed in Venice to represent the legends of its origins and legitimacy, David Rosand reveals how artists such as Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Tintoretto, and Veronese gave enduring visual form to the myths of Venice. He argues that Venice, more than any other political entity of the early modern period, shaped the visual imagination of political thought. This visualization of political ideals, and its reciprocal effect on the civic imagination, is the larger theme of the book.
The Venice Myth
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Author : David Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
The Venice Myth written by David Barnes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Myth And Utopian Thought In The Sixteenth Century
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Author : Marion Leathers Kuntz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1999
Venice Myth And Utopian Thought In The Sixteenth Century written by Marion Leathers Kuntz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Education categories.
The concept of Venice as the 'most perfect republic' was a major part of the myth of Venice which reached its full flowering in the 16th century. This myth in turn fed utopian visions of a unified world in which universal reformation and brotherhood would be the hallmark. The essays here examine the ideas and motivation of three Frenchmen of the 16th century, Jean Bodin, Guillaume Postel and Dionisio Gallo, who each made their own contribution to this conception of Venice and developed their own utopian ideals. Themes discussed are the foundations of Venetian toleration, the reasons for God's love of Venice above any other city, the relationship between charity and restitution, and the role of sexual dualism as a paradigm for the ideal state. Particular attention is given to the enigmatic figure of the 'Virgin of Venice'.
Venice Triumphant
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Author : Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005-03-23
Venice Triumphant written by Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-23 with History categories.
A group of senior citizens decide to move in together in All Together, a French-language comedy from director Stephanie Robelin. When Claude (Claude Rich) suffers an injury while trying to climb steps in order to meet a woman for a liaison, he and his friends, who are all suffering from some age-related malady, decide to move in together and hire a graduate student to look out for them. Among the new co-tenants are the senile Albert (Pierre Richard) and his wife, the outgoing Jeanne (Jane Fonda) who herself is fighting cancer. Also living with them is Jean (Guy Bedos) a onetime social crusader who enjoys the wealth he's acquired with his wife Annie (Geraldine Chaplin), who wants nothing more than to visit with her children and grandchildren. As they adjust to their new living arrangements, old jealousies and hurts resurface, forcing everyone to reconsider how they want to spend their golden years. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
The Myth Of Venice And Dutch Republican Thought In The Seventeenth Century
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Author : Eco O. G. Haitsma Mulier
language : en
Publisher: Thesis Publishers
Release Date : 1980
The Myth Of Venice And Dutch Republican Thought In The Seventeenth Century written by Eco O. G. Haitsma Mulier and has been published by Thesis Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
San Marco Byzantium And The Myths Of Venice
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Author : Henry Maguire
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010
San Marco Byzantium And The Myths Of Venice written by Henry Maguire and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
Henry Maguire, emeritus professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, works on Byzantine and related cultures. He has written extensively on Venetian art and the church of San Marco.
Venice In Environmental Peril
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Author : Dominic Standish
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2012
Venice In Environmental Peril written by Dominic Standish and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? This book explores Venice's environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian Republic. Campaigners' opinions about the mobile dams nearing completion to protect the city reveal that Venice now represents an environmentally-threatened retreat from modernity. This reputation has been established as sustainable development and climate change policies have risen to the top of political agendas in many cities and countries. The book investigates how environmentalism has been transformed from a theory underpinning counter-cultural movements to part of a dominant holistic culture in Western societies. Rather than constraining Venice in search of a mythical harmony with nature, this book offers a ten-point proposal to modernize the city while preserving its ancient heritage.
Virgil And The Myth Of Venice
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Author : Craig Kallendorf
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1999
Virgil And The Myth Of Venice written by Craig Kallendorf and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Authors and readers categories.
This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows that the Roman poet Virgil played an unexpectedly significant role in the shaping of Renaissance Venetian culture. Drawing on reception theory and the sociology of literature, it argues that Virgil's poetry became a best-seller because it sometimes challenged, but more often confirmed, the specific moral, religious, and social values of the Venetian readers.
Shakespeare Jonson And The Myth Of Venice
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Author : David C. McPherson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Shakespeare Jonson And The Myth Of Venice written by David C. McPherson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Drama categories.
This work outlines the bright and dark sides of the Myth of Venice, dwelling on four aspects: Venice the Rich, Venice the Wise, Venice the Just, and Venezia-citta-galante. After describing the channels through which Shakespeare and Jonson could have become aware of this myth, this work uses it to generate new understandings of the Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Volpone.
The Venetian Patriciate
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Author : Donald E. Queller
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1986
The Venetian Patriciate written by Donald E. Queller and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.