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Venise ; naissance d'une ville

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Parmi les innombrables ouvrages consacrés à Venise, le livre de Sergio Bettini, considéré en Italie comme un classique, tient une place particulière en ce qu’il adopte dès l’abord une position qui veut concevoir Venise comme obéissant, à travers les siècles, à une intention artistique propre, faisant de la ville une seule et unique œuvre d’art, vivante et cohérente. Tout entière construite dans une relation à la lumière et au rythme, obéissant à un tempo pleinement humain, Venise est « la ville, la plus ville qui soit, écrit Bettini. Non seulement les places et les rues, les maisons et les églises ont été, comme partout, construites par la main de l’homme, mais le terrain lui-même a été fait par l’homme. Les Vénitiens ont dû fixer et “amarrer” leur sol, consolider le fond boueux et instable des îles avec des pylônes, relever et renforcer les grèves contre les marées, imposer aux canaux des cours moins hasardeux. Construire enfin la base elle-même de la ville, pour affirmer leur volonté de vivre, et donner à cette vie une forme et un destin». C’est l’histoire de cette forme et de ce destin que Sergio Bettini raconte ici, dessinant la mosaïque d’une ville depuis ses origines jusqu’à l’apogée de son aventure architecturale.

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Venise est lagune

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L’auteur nous parle de l’intrusion des paquebots géants jusqu’au pied du Palais des Doges. Venise est lagune, Venise est fragile, Les monstres des mers causent des dégâts aux pilotis, s’approchent dangereusement des quais, déversent des odeurs nocives de fumée, déplacent des tonnes d’eau et la nuit des milliers de flashs crépitent.

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The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the speculum romanae magnificentiae

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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besancon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints - of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens - evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined the Renaissance. \Collections of these prints came to be known as the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence." Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the University of Chicago Library's "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the largest collection of its kind in the world, "The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome" places these prints in their historical context and examines their publishing history. Editor Rebecca Zorach traces their journey from their creators and publishers to pilgrims, collectors, antiquarians, and dealers - "virtual tourists" who, over several centuries, revisited and reinvented the Renaissance image of Rome. A marvelous exploration of a rich collection of engravings and etchings, this illustrated volume will fascinate anyone interested in Renaissance Rome, the history of print collecting, the reception of antiquity, and tourism.

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The foundation of Rome

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This book deals with `the historical anthropology of the ancient world', investigating the way in which Romans represented the founding figure of Romulus and the foundation of Rome in the mid-8th century BC, rather than examining whether it really did happen that way. Augusto Fraschetti presents the history of the foundation of Rome as it existed in the writings of historians such as Tacitus and Livy, by poets such as Ovid and by Cicero. In examining events in the life of Romulus, such as his war-making skills, his troubled relationship with the senate and the dismemberment of his body, Fraschetti asks whether authors exploited these episodes to comment upon actual events such as the assassination of Casear. This book is also about how Romans during the reign of Augustus, created their own history in order to account for and justify their future imperial glory, at the cost of their republican ideals. Appendices examine the ambiguous figure of Tarpeia and the archaeological discovery of a piece of wall at the foot of the Palatine Hill which has been dated to the 8th century BC. Translated from the Italian by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle.

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Dominion of the eye: urbanism, art, and power in early modern Florence

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Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century. Focusing on the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo, he documents in engaging detail how and why urban planners, in league with the civic government, enlarged these urban spaces. Articulating the design principles that served as the foundation for these urban renewal projects, Trachtenberg's book fundamentally revises our understanding of urban planning in the early modern period, countering the received claim that rational planning begins only in the Renaissance.

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Venice and the East

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This lively and richly illustrated book investigates the influence of oriental trade and travel on medieval Venice and its architecture. Architectural historian Deborah Howard examines the experiences of Venetian merchants overseas, focusing on links with Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, as well as with Persia and the Silk Route. She argues that many Venetians gained insight into Islamic culture through personal contacts with their Muslim trading partners. Based on wide-ranging multidisciplinary research, this book examines the mechanisms that governed the exchange of visual culture across ideological boundaries before the age of printing. Howard explores a range of building types that reflect the impact of Islamic imagery, paying special attention to two icon buildings, San Marco and the Palazzo Ducale. She considers the complexities of importing Muslim ideas to an unambiguously Christian city, itself the point of embarkation for pilgrims to the Holy Land.

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The architecture of modern Italy volume I: the challenge of tradition, 1750-1900

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Volume 1 : the challenge of tradition, 1750-1900 explores the dynamic balancing the forces demanded by a reverence for Italy's unparalleled architectural patrimony and a desire for new means of expression and technological innovation. From the neoclassical fantasies of Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the spectaculor steel-and-glass galleries of Milan, 'The challenge of tradition' reveals an underappreciated history of richness and complexity.

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Venise à vol d'oiseau

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Ce livre invite à survoler Venise en proposant sept itinéraires, ayant pour point de départ tantôt la Terra Ferma, tantôt la lagune ou la mer. Nous identifions ainsi, au travers de ces séquences, places, quartiers, lieux et monuments sans jamais perdre de vue la forme même de la ville.

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Voyage dans la Rome baroque : le vatican, les princes et les fêtes musicales

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Italianiste et historien de la musique, l'auteur plonge dans la vie culturelle de la Rome baroque aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles et fait découvrir la musique et l'opéra, les fêtes de l'aristocratie, les palais privés, les cérémonies du Vatican, les carnavals, les courses de chevaux.

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Une journée dans la Rome antique

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Une journée dans la Rome antique sous le règne de Trajan, quart d'heure par quart d'heure, par l'auteur d'«Empire» et des «Trois Jours de Pompéi» après ces deux succès et avec un même talent de conteur, Alberto Angela immerge si bien ses lecteurs dans l'Antiquité romaine qu'il fait presque d'eux des Romains afin qu'ils la comprennent mieux. Un livre qui s'est vendu à plus de 500 000 ex. en Italie.