| Description |
1 online resource (x, 188 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (16 color). |
| Series |
Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history
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Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Miraculous Birth -- 2. The Peace of Saint Mark -- 3. The Wisdom of Solomon -- 4. The Appropriation of Olympus. |
| Summary |
"In this work, David Rosand explores the imagery Venice developed to represent the legends of its origins and legitimacy, its divine favor and holy purpose. These themes found public expression throughout the city: in the basilica of San Marco and the Ducal Palace, at the Rialto and in the decoration of the confraternities, and in the monuments of the Piazza, the Loggetta, and the Libreria di San Marco. Indeed, among the most significant political resources of the Most Serene Republic were the imagination and talents of her greatest artists - Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Tintoretto, and Veronese - who gave enduring visual form to the myths of Venice." "Myths of Venice is concerned not only with the official iconography of state per se, but with the ways in which such imagery resonates within a culture, the ways in which visual motifs acquire an aura of association and allusion dependent upon a network of shared values and habits of interpretation."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art, Italian -- Italy -- Venice.
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Venice (Italy) -- In art.
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Art -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Venice.
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Art and state -- Italy -- Venice.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Art.
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| Added Title |
Venice |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Rosand, David. Myths of Venice 0807826413 (DLC) 2001027041 (OCoLC)45909202 |
| ISBN |
9781469601632 (electronic bk.) |
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146960163X (electronic bk.) |
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9780807872796 (electronic bk.) |
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0807872792 (electronic bk.) |
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0807826413 |
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9780807826416 |
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