Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Treasury of San Marco, Venice
Author: The Treasury of San Marco, Venice
Author: Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Treasury of San Marco, Venice
Author: The Treasury of San Marco, Venice
Author: David BucktonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295963273
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
St. Mark's
Author: Ettore VioPublisher:
ISBN: 9781878351586
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This authoritative book is by an expert team of scholars, many of whom have made this field their life's work - Over 250 full-colour photographs, over half of which are full-page images and double-page spreads The Basilica of St. Mark's is the most important church in Venice, and one of the most famous in the world. It was built to house the body of St. Mark and is immediately adjacent to the Doge's palace. It was in support of this power and this authority that the Venetians built and decorated what is perhaps the most magnificent church in Christendom.
The Treasury of San Marco, Venice
Author: David BucktonSacred Plunder
Author: David M. PerryPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271066830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.
San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice
Author: Henry MaguirePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780884023609
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Henry Maguire, emeritus professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, works on Byzantine and related cultures. He has written extensively on Venetian art and the church of San Marco.
Made in God's Image?
Author: Penny Howell JollyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520318226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Venice & Antiquity
Author: Patricia Fortini BrownPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300067003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.