Venice & antiquity : the Venetian sense of the past
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Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936-
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Oversize Collection - 4th Floor
DG675.6 .B7 1996
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Art and history -- Italy -- Venice.
Art, Italian -- Classical influences.
Art, Italian -- Italy -- Venice -- Foreign influences.
Civilization, Classical.
Classical antiquities -- Conservation and restoration.
Venice (Italy) -- Civilization -- Classical influences.
Venice (Italy) -- Civilization -- Foreign influences.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508.
OCLC Fast Subjects
Art and history.
Art, Italian -- Classical influences.
Art, Italian -- Foreign influences.
Civilization -- Classical influences.
Civilization -- Foreign influences.
Civilization, Classical.
Classical antiquities -- Conservation and restoration.
History.
Italy -- Venice.
Other Subjects
Antiquités gréco-romaines -- Conservation et restauration.
Art and history -- Italy -- Venice.
Art et histoire -- Italie -- Venise.
Art italien -- Influence ancienne.
Art italien -- Italie -- Venise -- Influence étrangère.
Art, Italian -- Italy -- Venice -- Foreign influences.
Byzantijnse tijd.
Civilisation ancienne.
Civilization, Classical.
Classical antiquities -- Conservation and restoration -- Italy -- Venice.
Klassieke oudheid.
Receptie.
Venice (Italy) -- Civilization -- Classical influences.
Venice (Italy) -- Civilization -- Foreign influences.
Venice (Italy) -- Civilization -- Foreign influences.
Venice (Italy) -- Civilization -- To 1797 -- Classical influences.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508.
Venise (Italie) -- Civilisation -- Influence ancienne.
Venise (Italie) -- Civilisation -- Influence étrangère.
Venise (Italie) -- Histoire -- 1508-1797.
Venise (Italie) -- Histoire -- 697-1508.

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xii, 361 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-351) and index.
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Venice was unique among major Italian cities in having no classical past of its own. As such, it experienced the Renaissance in a manner quite different from that of Florence or Rome. In this pathbreaking book, Patricia Fortini Brown focuses on Venice's Golden Age - from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century - and shows how it was influenced by antiquity, by its Byzantine heritage, and by its own historical experience. Drawing on such remains of vernacular culture as.
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Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.
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And motifs into its Byzantine and Gothic urban fabric. She notes, as well, the emergence of a new imperializing rhetoric in its historical writing. Toward the end of the fifteenth century, Brown observes the personal appropriation of classical motifs and prerogatives to celebrate not only the state, but also the individual and the family, and the fabrication of a lost world of pastoral myth and archaeological fantasy in art and vernacular literature. Through the adoption.
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Of a literary and architectural vocabulary of classical antiquity in the sixteenth century, civic Venice is shown to claim for itself an identity that is universalizing as well as unique.
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SACFinal081324

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Brown, P. F. (1996). Venice & antiquity: the Venetian sense of the past . Yale University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936-. 1996. Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936-. Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

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Brown, P. F. (1996). Venice & antiquity: the venetian sense of the past. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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Brown, Patricia Fortini. Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past Yale University Press, 1996.

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