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Venice and Vitruvius : reading Venice with Daniele Barbaro and Andrea Palladio
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- Creator
- Margaret Muther D'Evelyn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300174519, 0300174519
- OCLC
- ocn759174508
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Composing the commentaries. The arrival of the Italian Renaissance illustrated architectural book -- Reading Venice -- Building in Venice without proper foundations -- Open doors and welcoming atria -- Well-lighted windows -- Roofs -- Bricks that swim -- The city as theater -- Literary light
- Introduction -- Composing the commentaries. The arrival of the Italian Renaissance illustrated architectural book -- Reading Venice. Building in Venice without proper foundations : from mud to metaphysics -- Open doors and welcoming atria -- Well-lighted windows -- Roofs : from seaweed to magnificence -- Bricks that swim -- The city as theater -- Literary light