TY - BOOK AU - Fenlon,Iain TI - Piazza San Marco /Iain Fenlon T2 - Wonders of the world AV - NA9072 .P539 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Architecture KW - Italy KW - Venice KW - History KW - Architecture and society KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502803&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -