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Piazza San Marco / Iain Fenlon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fenlon, Iain.
- Series:
- Wonders of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Wonders of the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Italy--Venice--History.
- Architecture.
- Architecture and society--Italy--Venice--History.
- Architecture and society.
- Piazza San Marco (Venice, Italy)--History.
- Piazza San Marco (Venice, Italy).
- Venice (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Venice (Italy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Piazza San Marco, one of the most famous and instantly recognizable townscapes in the West, if not the world, has been described as a stage set, as Europe's drawing room, as a painter's canvas. This book traces the changing shape and function of the piazza, from its beginnings in the ninth century to its present day ubiquity in the Venetian, European, as well as global imagination.
- Contents:
- Myths and origins
- Imperial visions
- The new Rome
- Ritual forms
- Urban noise
- Decadence and decline
- From Spritz to Pink Floyd
- Appendix 1. Doges of Venice
- Appendix 2. Visiting the Piazza.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-06355-4
- OCLC:
- 1294426586
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