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Author : Canaletto
Release : 1971
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 057/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Views of Venice by : Canaletto
Download or read book Views of Venice written by Canaletto. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous series of paintings reproduced in contemporary engravings by Visentini. Wonderful view of 18th-century Venice; thorough text by J. Links. 50 illustrations.
Author : Elisabetta Baldisserotto
Release : 2021-05-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 53X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Book of Venice by : Elisabetta Baldisserotto
Download or read book The Book of Venice written by Elisabetta Baldisserotto. This book was released on 2021-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.
Author : Joanne Marie Ferraro
Release : 2016
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Venice by : Joanne Marie Ferraro
Download or read book Venice written by Joanne Marie Ferraro. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonio Canal
Release : 1971
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Book Synopsis Views of Venice by : Antonio Canal
Download or read book Views of Venice written by Antonio Canal. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salvatore Settis
Release : 2016-09-10
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 576/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis If Venice Dies by : Salvatore Settis
Download or read book If Venice Dies written by Salvatore Settis. This book was released on 2016-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes an urgent plea from internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis to preserve Venice’s future. What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? Venetians are increasingly abandoning their hometown — there’s now only one resident for every 140 visitors — and Venice’s fragile fate has become emblematic of the future of historic cities everywhere as it capitulates to tourists and those who profit from them. In If Venice Dies, a fiery blend of history and cultural analysis, internationally renowned art historian Savatore Settis argues that “hit-and-run” visitors are turning landmark urban settings into shopping malls and theme parks. He warns that Western civilization’s prime achievements face impending ruin from mass tourism and global cultural homogenization. This is a passionate plea to secure Venice’s future, written with consummate authority, wide-ranging erudition, and élan.
