Piazza San Marco /

Piazza San Marco / / Iain Fenlon, Iain Fenlon.

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 n...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Fenlon, Iain,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2009
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Wonders of the world : 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • MAPS
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 Myths and Origins
  • 2 Imperial Visions
  • 3 The New Rome
  • 4 Ritual Forms
  • 5 Urban Noise
  • 6 Decadence and Decline
  • 7 From Spritz to Pink Floyd
  • Appendix 1 Doges of Venice
  • Appendix 2 VISITING THE PIAZZA
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • INDEX

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