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The glory of Venice / text by Daniel Huguenin ; photographs by Erich Lessing.

By: Huguenin, Daniel [author.].
Contributor(s): Lessing, Erich [photographer.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Paris : Terrail, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 207 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 2879390966 (paperback); 9782879390963 (paperback).Other title: The glory of Venice : ten centuries of imagination and invention [Cover title].Subject(s): Art, Italian -- Italy -- Venice -- Themes, motives | Venice (Italy)DDC classification: 709.45
Contents:
Overture -- Venice triumphant: Titian, Aretino, Sansovino -- Painting for eternity: mosaics -- Sailors and merchants: Constantinople, Marco Polo, The Arsenal -- Into the Renaissance: Bellini and Carpaccio -- Love and poetry: Giorgione -- A child of Venice: Tintoretto -- From the Redentore to the Salute: Palladio and Loghena -- The marriage at Cana: Veronese -- Reflections of Venice: Canaletto, Guardi, Canove, and others -- Venice after Venice -- Further reading.
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General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 709.45 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00232743
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A journey through the mysteries and beauty created in the world's most fascinating city.

English adaptation, Frances Wister Faure with Robin Ayers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages: 204-205).

Overture -- Venice triumphant: Titian, Aretino, Sansovino -- Painting for eternity: mosaics -- Sailors and merchants: Constantinople, Marco Polo, The Arsenal -- Into the Renaissance: Bellini and Carpaccio -- Love and poetry: Giorgione -- A child of Venice: Tintoretto -- From the Redentore to the Salute: Palladio and Loghena -- The marriage at Cana: Veronese -- Reflections of Venice: Canaletto, Guardi, Canove, and others -- Venice after Venice -- Further reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Erich Lessing was born to Jewish parents in Vienna, Austria on July 13, 1923. He fled the Nazi annexation of Austria as a teenager in 1939 to Palestine. He studied radio engineering at a technical college and served in Britain's Sixth Airborne Division as a photographer and pilot. He returned to Austria in 1947. He was hired by Magnum Photos as a freelancer in 1951. He joined the agency full time in 1955 and became a part-time contributor in 1979. His photographs were included in The Louvre: All the Paintings. He died on August 29, 2018 at the age of 95.

(Bowker Author Biography)