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Author Rosand, David.

Title Myths of Venice : the figuration of a state / David Rosand
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 188 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (16 color)
Series Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history
Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history.
Contents 1. Miraculous Birth -- 2. The Peace of Saint Mark -- 3. The Wisdom of Solomon -- 4. The Appropriation of Olympus
Summary "In this work, David Rosand explores the imagery Venice developed to represent the legends of its origins and legitimacy, its divine favor and holy purpose. These themes found public expression throughout the city: in the basilica of San Marco and the Ducal Palace, at the Rialto and in the decoration of the confraternities, and in the monuments of the Piazza, the Loggetta, and the Libreria di San Marco. Indeed, among the most significant political resources of the Most Serene Republic were the imagination and talents of her greatest artists - Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Tintoretto, and Veronese - who gave enduring visual form to the myths of Venice." "Myths of Venice is concerned not only with the official iconography of state per se, but with the ways in which such imagery resonates within a culture, the ways in which visual motifs acquire an aura of association and allusion dependent upon a network of shared values and habits of interpretation."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index
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Subject Art, Italian -- Italy -- Venice.
Art -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Venice
Art and state -- Italy -- Venice
ART -- History -- Medieval.
ART -- General.
Art and state
Art, Italian
Art -- Political aspects
Kunst
Repräsentation
Selbstbild
Kunst.
SUBJECT Venice (Italy) -- In art
Subject Italy -- Venice
Venedig
Genre/Form Electronic books
Art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469601632
146960163X
9780807872796
0807872792
Other Titles Venice