Main entry:

Pincus, Debra, author.

Title & Author:

The tombs of the Doges of Venice / Debra Pincus.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Description:

xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.
Introduction: "For the honor of Venice" -- Chapter 1 The office of Doge and the civic tomb -- Chapter 2 Ruler of Romania: the tomb of Jacopo Tiepolo by the door of the Dominicans -- Chapter 3 Ruler of Civitas: the tomb of Marino Maorsini in Mark's vestibule -- Chapter 4 Ruler of the seas, triumphant in Civitas: the tomb of Ranieri Zeno at SS. Giovanni e Paolo -- Chapter 5 Who rules Christ's realm? -- Chapter 6 The thaumaturgical ruler in the baptistery: the tomb of Giovanni Soranzo in San Marco -- Chapter 7 The Doge and the Franciscans: the tomb of Francesco Dandolo in the chapter house of the Frari -- Chapter 8 The Doge in the divine plan: Andrea Dandolo's program for San Marco -- Epilogue The cappella maggiore of SS. Giovanni e Paolo as mausoleum of the Doges: ducal display in a patrician context -- Appendix 1. Early and not-early ducal tombs and ducal tomb inscriptions -- Appendix 2. The tiepolo inscription: a fifteenth-century addition to the tomb.

Summary:

The Tombs of the Doges of Venice examines a series of funerary monuments created in the late middle ages and early modern period. Providing close analysis of seven tombs commissioned over a 150-year era, Debra Pincus identifies these works as important political statements that closely identify the ducal office with 'the two Venices' - the huge commercial empire and Italian commune, focused on both East and West. Previously examined only in formal terms, the tombs document the transition from medieval ideas of theological statecraft to the proto-humanist conceptualization of the state that is characteristic of the early modern era. Pincus' study systematically demonstrates how the Venetian doges used visual imagery as the vehicle for important political statements, with the scholar-doge Andrea Dandolo emerging as particularly skilled in the manipulation of the rhetorical power of tomb display. -- From amazon.com.

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ISBN:

0521593549 (hb)
9780521593540 (hb)

Subject:

Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance Italy Venice.
Sepulchral monuments Italy Venice.
Monuments funéraires de la Renaissance Italie Venise.
Monuments funéraires Italie Venise.
Monumenti sepolcrali Venezia.
Dogi veneziani.
Buildings.
Kings and rulers Tombs.
Sepulchral monuments.
Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance.
Graftomben.
Reliëfs.
Dogen.
Monuments funéraires Italie Venise (Italie)
Doges Italie Venise (Italie) Tombeaux.
Venice (Italy) Kings and rulers Tombs.
Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Venecia (Italia) Edificios, estructuras, etc.
Venise (Italie) Rois et souverains Tombeaux.
Venise (Italie) Constructions.
Italy Venice.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 208646
Call No.: NB1875 .P5 2000
Status: Available