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The architectural history of Venice / Deborah Howard.

By: Howard, Deborah.
Contributor(s): Quill, Sarah.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2002Edition: Rev. and enlarged ed. with new photographs / by Sarah Quill.Description: xvi, 246 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0300090295 :.Subject(s): Architecture -- Italy -- Venice -- History
Contents:
The Origins of the City -- Byzantine -- Byzantine Religious Architecture on the Islands of Torcello and Murano -- Byzantine Religious Architecture in Venice Itself -- Byzantine Domestic Architecture -- Veneto-Byzantine Palaces -- Thirteenth-century Transformations -- The Medieval City -- Venice as an Urban Environment -- Building Materials and Techniques -- Essential Services and Other Amenities -- Gothic -- Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture: The Mendicant Orders -- Some Smaller Gothic Churches -- Gothic Secular Architecture -- The Palazzo Ducale -- The Interior Planning of Venetian Gothic Palaces -- Stylistic Transformations -- The First Gothic Palaces -- Gothic Palaces in the Fourteenth Century -- Fifteenth-century Gothic Palaces -- The Venetian Scuole -- Early Renaissance -- The Beginnings of the Renaissance in Venetian Architecture -- Religious Architecture in Early Renaissance Venice -- Mauro Codussi -- Architecture during the Wars of the League of Cambrai -- 'Roman' Renaissance -- Sebastiano Serlio -- Sansovino and Sanmicheli -- Andrea Palladio -- Baroque -- The Beginnings of the Venetian Baroque -- Baldassare Longhena -- Giuseppe Sardi -- Palladianism and Neo-classicism -- Domenico Rossi and Andrea Tirali -- Giovanni Scalfarotto and Giorgio Massari -- Antonio Visentini and Tommaso Temanza -- Giannantonio Selva -- Venice since the Fall of the Republic -- The Napoleonic Kingdom (1805-1814) -- The Second and Third Periods of Austrian Rule (1814-1848 and 1849-1866) -- Venice as Part of Italy: 1866 to the First World War -- The Rise of Fascism: First World War to Second World War -- The Post-war Years: 1945-1980 -- Epilogue: Venice since 1980.
Summary: This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated and filled with attractive new illustrations, this edition invites all visitors to Venice, armchair travellers, and students of Renaissance art and architecture to a fuller appreciation of the buildings of this uniquely beautiful city.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection NA 1121 .V4 H68 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 635284

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Origins of the City -- Byzantine -- Byzantine Religious Architecture on the Islands of Torcello and Murano -- Byzantine Religious Architecture in Venice Itself -- Byzantine Domestic Architecture -- Veneto-Byzantine Palaces -- Thirteenth-century Transformations -- The Medieval City -- Venice as an Urban Environment -- Building Materials and Techniques -- Essential Services and Other Amenities -- Gothic -- Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture: The Mendicant Orders -- Some Smaller Gothic Churches -- Gothic Secular Architecture -- The Palazzo Ducale -- The Interior Planning of Venetian Gothic Palaces -- Stylistic Transformations -- The First Gothic Palaces -- Gothic Palaces in the Fourteenth Century -- Fifteenth-century Gothic Palaces -- The Venetian Scuole -- Early Renaissance -- The Beginnings of the Renaissance in Venetian Architecture -- Religious Architecture in Early Renaissance Venice -- Mauro Codussi -- Architecture during the Wars of the League of Cambrai -- 'Roman' Renaissance -- Sebastiano Serlio -- Sansovino and Sanmicheli -- Andrea Palladio -- Baroque -- The Beginnings of the Venetian Baroque -- Baldassare Longhena -- Giuseppe Sardi -- Palladianism and Neo-classicism -- Domenico Rossi and Andrea Tirali -- Giovanni Scalfarotto and Giorgio Massari -- Antonio Visentini and Tommaso Temanza -- Giannantonio Selva -- Venice since the Fall of the Republic -- The Napoleonic Kingdom (1805-1814) -- The Second and Third Periods of Austrian Rule (1814-1848 and 1849-1866) -- Venice as Part of Italy: 1866 to the First World War -- The Rise of Fascism: First World War to Second World War -- The Post-war Years: 1945-1980 -- Epilogue: Venice since 1980.

This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated and filled with attractive new illustrations, this edition invites all visitors to Venice, armchair travellers, and students of Renaissance art and architecture to a fuller appreciation of the buildings of this uniquely beautiful city.

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