Author: Warren Adelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300117175
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Den amerikanske kunstner John Singer Sargents (1856-1925) skildringer af Venedig.
The Book of Venice
Author: Elisabetta Baldisserotto
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 191269753X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 191269753X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.
Venetian Chic
Author: Francesca Bortolotto Possati
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614285381
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Venetian art connoisseur, interior designer, and hotelier Francesca Bortolotto Possati knows the intricacies of Venice. To have her as a guide is to experience firsthand her passion for the private side of the mythic city whose daily visitors outnumber its population. Join her to visit artists’ studios, elegant Venetian friends, and palaces’ secrets. Everywhere one wanders, a sense of history saturates the buildings and landscapes, harking back to the artists of the Renaissance and the chic masquerade balls of centuries past.The discerning eye of photographer Robyn Lea makes this book a revelation of the Venice of dreams, which will surely allow readers to see this iconic destination through new eyes.A sentimental foreword by Jeremy Irons perfectly complements this stunning volume.
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614285381
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Venetian art connoisseur, interior designer, and hotelier Francesca Bortolotto Possati knows the intricacies of Venice. To have her as a guide is to experience firsthand her passion for the private side of the mythic city whose daily visitors outnumber its population. Join her to visit artists’ studios, elegant Venetian friends, and palaces’ secrets. Everywhere one wanders, a sense of history saturates the buildings and landscapes, harking back to the artists of the Renaissance and the chic masquerade balls of centuries past.The discerning eye of photographer Robyn Lea makes this book a revelation of the Venice of dreams, which will surely allow readers to see this iconic destination through new eyes.A sentimental foreword by Jeremy Irons perfectly complements this stunning volume.
A History of Venice
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141013834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
John Julius Norwich's dazzling history of Venice from its origins to its eighteenth century fall. 'Lord Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done. He has put readers of his generation more in his debt than any other English writer' Peter Levi, The Sunday Times.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141013834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
John Julius Norwich's dazzling history of Venice from its origins to its eighteenth century fall. 'Lord Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done. He has put readers of his generation more in his debt than any other English writer' Peter Levi, The Sunday Times.
Venice
Author: Jan Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571168972
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its architecture, its bridges, its tourists, its curiosities, its smells, sounds, lights and colours, there is scarcely a corner of Venice that Jan Morris has not investigated and brought vividly to life. Jan Morris first visited the city of Venice as young James Morris, during World War II. As she writes in the introduction, 'it is Venice seen through a particular pair of eyes at a particular moment - young eyes at that, responsive above all to the stimuli of youth.' Venice is an impassioned work on this magnificent but often maddening city. Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Sydney, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain and Manhattan '45. Since its first publication, Venice has appeared in many editions, won the W.H. Heinemann award and become an international bestseller. 'The best book about Venice ever written' Sunday Times 'No sensible visitor should visit the place without it . . . Venice stands alone as the essential introduction, and as a work of literature in its own right.' Observer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571168972
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its architecture, its bridges, its tourists, its curiosities, its smells, sounds, lights and colours, there is scarcely a corner of Venice that Jan Morris has not investigated and brought vividly to life. Jan Morris first visited the city of Venice as young James Morris, during World War II. As she writes in the introduction, 'it is Venice seen through a particular pair of eyes at a particular moment - young eyes at that, responsive above all to the stimuli of youth.' Venice is an impassioned work on this magnificent but often maddening city. Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Sydney, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain and Manhattan '45. Since its first publication, Venice has appeared in many editions, won the W.H. Heinemann award and become an international bestseller. 'The best book about Venice ever written' Sunday Times 'No sensible visitor should visit the place without it . . . Venice stands alone as the essential introduction, and as a work of literature in its own right.' Observer
Sargent's Venice
Author: Warren Adelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300117175
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Den amerikanske kunstner John Singer Sargents (1856-1925) skildringer af Venedig.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300117175
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Den amerikanske kunstner John Singer Sargents (1856-1925) skildringer af Venedig.
The Book Buyer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian,
Author: Marco Polo
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East Newly Translated and Edited, with Notes, by Henry Yule
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Master Makers of the Book
Author: William Dana Orcutt
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description