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Tropic of Venice / Margaret Doody.
LIBRA DG675.6 .D66 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doody, Margaret Anne.
- Series:
- Personal takes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Venice (Italy)--Description and travel.
- Venice (Italy).
- Venice (Italy)--In literature.
- Painting, Italian--Italy--Venice.
- Painting, Italian.
- Italy--Venice.
- Venice (Italy)--In art.
- Venice (Italy)--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- x, 345 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- In this journey through the work of artists and the writings of travelers who have been both smitten and repelled by the influence of Venice, Margaret Doody explores ways in which this is a city profoundly unlike any other on earth--and one that simultaneously unsettles and reveals many of our most deeply rooted cultural values.
- Contents:
- 1 Discovering Venice: Arrival 1
- 2 Ever-Vanishing City 20
- 3 A Dream of Pleasure, a Nightmare of Spies: Venice in the Eighteenth Century 57
- 4 Happy and Unhappy Travelers 96
- 5 Venice-Venus: The Brilliant Muddy History 126
- 6 The Engineering of Color 156
- 7 Venetian Painting: Design and Color 194
- 8 Cybele-Venus-Venice: Women in Venetian Art 238
- 9 Labyrinth and Carnival 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812239849
- 9780812239843
- OCLC:
- 71189929
- Publisher Number:
- 9780812239843
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