Venice : the city and its architecture / Richard Goy
1997, 1st edition. London : Phaidon. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #386152
ISBN: 0714830054
Physical description; 320 pp., illustrations (some color), 1 map, 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-315) and index. Contents; Origins -- Land and water : the form of the city -- Constructing a city : materials, craftsmen and techniques -- Piazza San Marco : the heart of the empire -- The Arsenale : trading power and naval supremacy -- The ghetto : a world apart -- Railto : the marketplace of Europe -- Palaces of power and prestige : the institutional hub -- The Venetian church : two traditions, east and west -- Social orders : scuole grandi and piccole -- Social orders II : paupers and patricians -- The Venetian palace : history of a typology -- Post-imperial buildings for the modern era -- Postscript. Subjects; Architecture Italy Venice. Buildings. Construction.
Price: €45.00