with a preface by John Julius Norwich Venice: An Anthology Guide is the fifth edition, completely updated, of Milton Grundy's perennially fresh classic travel guide to the city. It is unlike any other guide, for it conducts visitors round Venice using the observations and opinions of famous writers and art historians to enlighten them. Among the people it quotes are Vasari, Ruskin, Berenson, Wittkower, Dickens, Henry James, A.J.C. Hare, Otto Demus, Ernst Gombrich, Michael Levey, Cecil Gould, Hugh Honour and James Morris. A selection of new illustrations has been incorporated. The book divides Venice up into seven walks and four excursions, with eight clear maps, so that people can see the maximum number of sights they wish to in a limited time. Its coverage of Venice's rich store of paintings and sculpture is as full as that of its unique architecture. The illustrations are most of them taken from old engravings and, like the text, provide a fascinating historical perspective on the present-day versions of the scenes and buildings they represent.
- ISBN10 0713627808
- ISBN13 9780713627800
- Publish Date 19 September 1985 (first published 28 September 1976)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint A & C Black Publishers Ltd
- Edition 4th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 212
- Language English