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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- MAPS
- CHRONOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Myths and Origins
- 2 Imperial Visions
- 3 The New Rome
- 4 Ritual Forms
- 5 Urban Noise
- 6 Decadence and Decline
- 7 From Spritz to Pink Floyd
- Appendix 1 Doges of Venice
- Appendix 2 VISITING THE PIAZZA
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX