Myths of Venice
Subtitle: The Figuration of a State
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 17, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780807826416
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Venice; European; 15th-16th Century Art; Art & Art Instruction; Political aspects; Art; Italy; History - General; Art & Politics; Art / History / Medieval; Venice (Italy); Art and state; Art, Italian; In art; Venice; iconography; state; Renaissance; lion of del Fiore; Gentile Bellini; Giovanni Bellini; Jacopo de' Barbari; Vittore Carpaccio; Alessandro Leopardi; Antonio Lombardo; Titian; Jacoppo Sansovino; Jacopo Tintoretto; Domenico Tintoretto; Paolo Tommaso Rangone; Marin Sanudo; San Marco; Ducal Palace; Doge's Ten; Piazza San Marco; Loggetta di San Marco; Libreria Marciana; Santa Maria della Carita; Rialto; Solomon; Archangel Gabriel; Virgin Mary; Annunciation; Incarnation; scuole grandi; Byzantium; Venus; Neptune; Apollo; Mercuy; Pallas Athena; Minerva; Jupiter; Juno; Astraea; Ceres; Bacchus; Ariadne; Vulcan; Cyclops; Muses; relics; Justice; Wisdom; St. Mark; Anianus; Alexandria; Francesco Sansovino; Gasparo Contarini; personification; myth; constitution; ideology; mosaics;
First sentence: Unique in its site, built upon the mud flats of a lagoon, rising above the waters, Venice rhetorically exploited every aspect of its singularity (plate 1, fig. 1).
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.