Venice: Lion City
The Religion of Empire
Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which it resembled in its combination of art and sea empire.Venice: Lion City presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. It is illustrated with more than 130 works o…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4391-2212-9
- EAN: 9781439122129
- Produktnummer: 14888106
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 65'533 KB
- Abbildungen: b&w photos throughout; 1-16p 4-c insert
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