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ISBN-13
9781905375455
Book Title
The Mermaids of Venice
ISBN
9781905375455
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject Area
Art, Social Science
Publication Name
Mermaids of Venice : Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art
Author
Alison Luchs
Publisher
Miller Publishers, Harvey
Subject
Folklore & Mythology, History / Renaissance
Item Weight
6.9 Oz
Number of Pages
273 Pages

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The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen--graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or sea serpent. Other sea hybrids--horses, bulls,panthers, even an elephant--also swim through Venetian art in finned and fish-tailed forms.Such creatures emerge from stone in the shadowy churches and the sunlit courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, crown the wooden frame of a Giovanni Bellini altarpiece, and encircle the bronze flagpole bases in Piazza San Marco. Their gilded sugar apparitions graced banquet tables for illustrious visitors, and their descendents still glide through the canals in the form of brass seahorses set above the sides of gondolas This book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids as some of the most engaging inventions of the Renaissance in Venice and its subject city Padua. The chapters deal with five functional contexts: book decoration of the 1470s and 80s; tomb monuments of the 1480s and 90s; church decoration of the same years, particularly at Santa Maria dei Miracoli; centers of political activity, including civic settings in Venice and the palaces of powerful mainland employers of Venetian artists; and finally, private homes, where owners could hold small bronze sea hybrids in their hands, often as objects for use. A prologue introduces the heritage of monsters from the ancient and medieval worlds, the better to show how Venetian artists adapted these to new purposes. Exploring the ways in which artists could interpret and contemporary viewers might experience these wide-ranging sea-creatures, the book brings their best images together as a source of delight.

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Publisher
Miller Publishers, Harvey
ISBN-10
190537545x
ISBN-13
9781905375455
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038412592

Product Key Features

Author
Alison Luchs
Publication Name
Mermaids of Venice : Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Folklore & Mythology, History / Renaissance
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
273 Pages

Dimensions

Item Weight
6.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
N6915
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
704.947094531109024
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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