Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An Accurate Account of the Fall of the Republic of Venice, and of the Circumstances Attending that Event
Author: An Accurate Account Of The Fall Of The Republic Of Venice, And Of The Circumstances Attending That Event: In Which The French System Of Undermining An
Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9781018187365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Accurate Account of the Fall of the Republic of Venice, and of the Circumstances Attending That Event
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294724155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ An Accurate Account Of The Fall Of The Republic Of Venice, And Of The Circumstances Attending That Event: In Which The French System Of Undermining And Revolutionizing States Is Exposed; An Accurate Account Of The Fall Of The Republic Of Venice, And Of The Circumstances Attending That Event: In Which The French System Of Undermining And Revolutionizing States Is Exposed; John Hinckley John Hinckley Printed for J. Hatchard by J. Hales, 1804 History; Europe; France; France; History / Europe / France; History / Europe / Italy; Travel / Europe / Italy; Venice (Italy)
An Accurate Account of the Fall of the Republic of Venice ... in which the French system of undermining and revolutionizing states is exposed; and the true character of Buonaparté faithfully pourtrayed. Translated from the Italian [i.e. from the manuscript of Vittorio Barzoni's "Rivoluzioni della Repubblica Veneta," subsequently published] by John Hinckley, Esq., F.S.A.
Author: An Accurate Account of the Fall of the Republic of Venice and of the Circumstances Attending that Event
Author: John HinckleyMonthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
The Monthly Review
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
Author: Plunder
Author: Cynthia SaltzmanPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.
