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Title: Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 by Deborah Howard ISBN: 0-300-08504-4 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Summary: Venice's love affair with the Orient
Comment: Clearly one of the best art books of the year, Venice and the East traces the impact of Islamic art on the Venetian imagination -- as evident in its architecture. Though stunning illustrations that compare Venetian and Islamic architecture and a well-written text based on primary sources, author Deborah Howard shows that, in the heyday of Levantine trade, Venetian merchants brought back more than spices and cotton from the Islamic world. They also brought back visions of paradise: Islamic styles in gardens, courtyards and palaces that evoked not just Eastern sensuality but also biblical grandeur and spirituality. Although Howard gives ample attention to the borrowing of specific architectural motifs -- balconies, crenellated walls and ogee windows -- she goes well beyond a cataloging of borrowed style. This is, most of all, a study in cultural assimilation -- of ideas as much as architectural form -- and is well worth treasuring whether your passion runs to architecture, history, sociology, or more simply: to gorgeously illustrated coffee table books.
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Title: Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300Ð1600 by Rosamond E. Mack ISBN: 0520221311 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 03 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass 1250-1550 by Paul Hills ISBN: 0300081359 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: A Traveller's Companion to Venice (The Traveller's Companion Series) by John Julius Norwich ISBN: 1566564654 Publisher: Interlink Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19th Century by John Julius Norwich ISBN: 0385509049 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Venice : The City and It's Architecture by Richard Goy ISBN: 0714838640 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: 29 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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