Piazza San Marco /
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 Europe's drawing room, as a painter's canvas. This book traces the changing shape and function of the piazza, from its beginnings in the n...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2012]
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Colección: | Wonders of the world : 20
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 Europe's drawing room, as a painter's 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
ISBN: | 9780674063556 9783110442212 9783110442205 |
Acceso: | restricted access |