Piazza San Marco /Iain Fenlon.
Fenlon, Iain.
Piazza San Marco /Iain Fenlon. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xxi, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Wonders of the world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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 Europes drawing room, as a painters 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.--from publisher description.
Architecture--History.--Italy--Venice
Architecture and society--History.--Italy--Venice
Electronic Books.
NA9072 / .P539 2009
Piazza San Marco /Iain Fenlon. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xxi, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Wonders of the world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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 Europes drawing room, as a painters 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.--from publisher description.
Architecture--History.--Italy--Venice
Architecture and society--History.--Italy--Venice
Electronic Books.
NA9072 / .P539 2009