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A Collection of Venetian Garden Sculpture Including...
Author: A Collection of Venetian Garden Sculpture
Author: Sotheby's SussexA Collection of Venetian Garden Sculpture
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Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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A Collection of Venetian Garden Sculpture, Including Works Attributed to Giovanni and Antonio Bonazza, Giovanni Marchiori and Orazio Marinali
Author: Venetian Art Glass
Author: Marino BarovierPublisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN: 9783897902053
Category : Art GLass
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A superbly illustrated and meticulously researched standard work for connoisseurs and collectors of Venetian art glass. Includes a marks table and a glossary.
A Collection of Venetian Garden Sculpture, Including Works Attributed to Giovanni and Antonio Bonazza, Giovanni Marchiori and Orazio Marinali
Author: The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto
Author: Jenny CondiePublisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711234048
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto takes in a varied selection of gardens old and new, large and small, public and private. It ranges from tiny monastery gardens tucked away within the walls of Venice to grand palatial landscapes in the former marshes of the hinterland. The book is divided into five sections as well as a lively introduction which captures the rich history of this region. The first section will show the extraordinary gardens still to be found locked behind high walls in the city itself. Then Jenny Condie and Alex Ramsay wander through the more modest parts of the city where ordinary Venetians manage to grow flowers, fruit and vegetables in the most unlikely spots. Then it is out into the lagoon and wild gardens on marshy islands before turning inland to the grand Palladian villas and the Baroque splendours of villas like the Villa Barbarigo and the Villa Allegri Arvedi among many fine country residences of ancient families. All the gardens in the book can be reached within a day's expedition from Venice and practical information about access and advice on the best time of year to visit is included for all those open to the public.
The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy
Author: Monika SchmitterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108934439
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 943
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Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni is one of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Son of an immigrant and a member of the non-noble citizen class, Odoni understood how the power of art could make a name for himself and his family in his adopted homeland. Far from emulating Venetian patricians, however, he set himself apart through the works he collected and the way he displayed them. In this book, Monika Schmitter imaginatively reconstructs Odoni's house – essentially a 'portrait' of Odoni through his surroundings and possessions. Schmitter's detailed analysis of Odoni's life and portrait reveals how sixteenth-century individuals drew on contemporary ideas about spirituality, history, and science to forge their own theories about the power of things and the agency of object. She shows how Lotto's painting served as a meta-commentary on the practice of collecting and on the ability of material things to transform the self.
Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice
Author: Jodi CranstonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271084030
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with actual and imaginary green spaces. This volume examines how and why this pastoral vision of Venice developed. Drawing on a variety of primary sources ranging from visual art to literary texts, performances, and urban plans, Jodi Cranston shows how Venetians lived the pastoral in urban Venice. She describes how they created green spaces and enacted pastoral situations through poetic conversations and theatrical performances in lagoon gardens; discusses the island utopias found, invented, and mapped in distant seas; and explores the visual art that facilitated the experience of inhabiting verdant landscapes. Though the greening of Venice was relatively short lived, Cranston shows how the phenomenon had a lasting impact on how other cities, including Paris and London, developed their self-images and how later writers and artists understood and adapted the pastoral mode. Incorporating approaches from eco-criticism and anthropology, Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice greatly informs our understanding of the origins and development of the pastoral in art history and literature as well as the culture of sixteenth-century Venice. It will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts of sixteenth-century history and culture, the history of urban landscapes, and Italian art.
Author: F. Eden