Venice symbolizes complexity and continuity, contradiction and unique harmony. The city's natural and architectural features have coalesced as an extraordinary fusion of space, shapes and symbols. Over centuries, Venice has absorbed both the cultures of the Byzantine East and the Romanesque West; the vocabulary of Gothic architecture, and the influence of Arab and Moorish styles; the discoveries of Renaissance art and the extravagance of the Baroque. Yet in Venice these influences from elsewhere have been fashioned with uniquely Venetian style and character defined by the city's own space and environment. This book examines Venice's major architectural monuments - churches, palaces, scuole, private residences - interpreting their style, structure, and architectural intent - and explores in a similar vein the city's public areas - piazzas, bridges, roadways.
- ISBN10 1860642063
- ISBN13 9781860642067
- Publish Date 31 December 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint I.B. Tauris
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 324
- Language English