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Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City
by Savoy, Daniel
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0300167970
- ISBN 13
- 9780300167979
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Yale University Press, 2012 4to (29 cm), VIII, 143 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "The floating city of Venice has enchanted visitors for centuries with its maze of scenic canals. For this pioneering book, Daniel Savoy set out by boat to explore the built environment of these waterways, gaining new insights into the architectural history of this major early modern Italian center. By viewing the architecture and experience of the canals in relation to the production of Venetian civic mythology, the author found that the waterways of Venice and its lagoon were integral areas of the city's pre-modern urban space, and that their flanking buildings were constructed in an intimate dialogue with the water's visual, spatial, and metaphorical properties. Enhancing the natural wonder of their aquatic setting, the builders of Venice used illusory aesthetic and scenographic practices to create waterfront buildings that appear to float, blend into the water, and glide into view around bends in the canals--transporting visitors into a seemingly otherworldly realm. This book's striking photographs of Venice, as seen from its waterways, will likewise transport readers with breathtaking views of this captivating city."
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
(PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006756
- Title
- Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City
- Author
- Savoy, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300167970
- ISBN 13
- 9780300167979
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2012
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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