Piazza San Marco
By: Iain Fenlon.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780674027916
Subjects: Architecture -- Italy -- Venice -- History; Architecture and society -- Italy -- Venice -- History; Piazza San Marco (Venice, Italy) -- History; Venice (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Description: The Piazza San Marco, one of the most famous and instantly recognizable townscapes in the West, if not the world, has been described as a stage set, as Europes drawing room, as a painters canvas. This book traces the changing shape and function of the piazza, from its beginnings in the ninth century to its present day ubiquity in the Venetian, European, as well as global imagination.--from publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Myths and origins; title: Ch. 2. Imperial visions; title: Ch. 3. The new Rome; title: Ch. 4. Ritual forms; title: Ch. 5. Urban noise; title: Ch. 6. Decadence and decline; title: Ch. 7. From Spritz to Pink Floyd; title: Appendix 1. Chronology; title: Appendix 2. List of Venetian Doges.