Most Venetians and students of Venetian history will recognize the name of Francesco Morosini (16. Though her writing style may strike the average reader as pedantic, specialists will find this a useful source She includes 42 pages of notes and a 15-page bibliography (in small print). To support this formulation, Venice is examined during its Golden Age (the 13th to 16th centuries) through its arts, crafts, and literature to explore the "evolution of a Venetian view of time, of history and of historical change." Brown is painstaking in her research, using many translations of primary sources from the period. Brown (art and archaeology, Princeton) here argues that because of this lack of a Roman connection, Venetians devised a history for their city, creating a genealogy that they found acceptable. Unlike the other great centers of Italian Renaissance art, Venice had no connection with ancient Rome its site was not inhabited until after the fall of the empire. Unlike the other great centers of Italian Renaissance art, Venice had no con.
Recapturing the interplay between the public and private, she offers an account of Venetian households unequalled in vividness and detail. The author considers such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, and the visual culture of Venetian women-how they decorated their homes, dressed, undertook domestic tasks, entertained, and raised their children. Illustrated with hundreds of varied and unusual images, the book provides a lively picture of the aristocratic lifestyle during a period of changing definitions of nobility. Distinguished art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant façades of grand palaces built along the Venetian canals and examines the roles of both fine and applied arts in family life as well as the public messages that these impressive homes conveyed. more This book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of patrician families in sixteenth-century Venice.
This book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture o. This epic tale highlights the role of women in creating family networks and opens a precious window into a contentious period in which Venetian republican values clash with the deeply rooted feudal traditions of honor and blood feuds of the mainland. The fortunes and misfortunes of the nine surviving Della Torre children and their descendants, tracked through the end of the Republic in 1797, are likewise emblematic of a change in feudal culture from clan solidarity to individualism and intrafamily strife, and ultimately, redemption.ĭespite the efforts by both the Della Torre and the Bembo families to preserve the patrimony through a succession of male heirs, the last survivor in the paternal bloodline of each was a daughter. Their marriage in the mid-sixteenth century might be regarded as emblematic of the Venetian experience, with the metropole at the center of a fragmented empire: a Terraferma nobleman and the daughter of a Venetian senator, who raised their family in far off Crete in the stato da mar, in Venice itself, and in the Friuli and the Veneto in the stato da terra.
more A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian senator with a distinguished career in service to the Venetian Republic. All rights reserved.A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book rec. Submit your listing for the resource guide Willits CA 95490-0658 United Guide to Icons and Sacred Artĭo you offer services and products for icon painters? Do you restore or collect icons? Do you conduct workshops? Do you teach or apprentice icon-painting students? Have your business or listing published here, so you may be a part of the guide. Icon reproduction orders are handcrafted by me and shipped to the desires of the art patron priority mail.
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