Piazza San Marco /Iain Fenlon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 233 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NA9072 .P539 2009
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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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.

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