PhotoBooks Italy - Venice

With its lovely waterways, stunning architecture, and spirited carnival, it's no wonder that Venice has enchanted visitors for centuries. In Venice and the Veneto, photographers Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo capture the allure of this unforgettable city in rich, full-color photographs that resemble fine paintings. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a different Venetian theme, including "A Watery Realm," in which breathtaking views of the city's waterways may be found, and "Piazza San Marco," "a compelling image whether the day is just dawning, already well advanced, or drawing to a close." Bullaty and Lomeo also turn their expert eyes to the beautiful region surrounding Venice, the Veneto, which "encompasses Palladian palaces, medieval villages, vineyards, and the Dolomite Mountains." Such splendid photographs, when coupled with the musings on Venice from distinguished writers, artists, and musicians sprinkled throughout the text, make "the ideal gift book for those who have experienced the magic of Venice and long to return, as well as those who look forward to exploring this magical city and discovering the Veneto."

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The wonder and uniqueness of Venice are obvious from the first awed accounts from pilgrims heading toward the Holy Land. Rarely, though, has the hidden beauty of the city been captured so evocatively as it is here. This is the first book to be devoted to photographs taken from the numerous bell towers of Venice, showing, almost from an aerial perspective, every quarter of the world's most beautiful city.

In a succession of stunning photographs, all specially commissioned for this book, the whole of Venice is revealed, from the well-known landmarks to the smallest side canals, minor palaces, and the city's many secret gardens. The photographs are complemented by an informative text, which begins with an historical introduction, followed by brief histories of over 100 individual churches whose bell towers provide the views.

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Is it possible to interpret the urban spaces in ancient Venice as we would analyse those in Los Angeles or Rotterdam? This book is the attempt to analyse Venice's campi in the same way we would consider public space today. It focuses on those places so essential to public life and which offer an endless number of variations in our urban surroundings. We are actors on the stages of the city. The continual fascination with Venice's campi shows that this feature of urban architecture still has a significant role to play in modern life and they have a great creative potential to offer today's architects and planners. This publication documents Venice's squares in detail, analysing them precisely. Extensive visual material including plans, photographs of models, and photo sequences of the actual squares complement the texts to provide a comprehensive reference on this topic.

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It is the meeting of stone and water that creates much of the magic of Venice, the solidity and permanence of the former and the evanescent fragility of the latter. What these elements have done, however, is to wear away surfaces, making the simplest brick wall an object of contemplation and giving a special patina to the expensive marbles used from a staircase to a masterpiece of sculpture.

Following the Byzantine tradition, multicolored pieces of marble and semiprecious stone covered the floors of a religious building in a magic mosaic. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, multicolored marble tombs climbed up the walls of the city's churches and great artists made magnificent stone statues in all sizes for church and state as well as for the great patrician families. This beautiful, specially photographed all color book on Venice is a thesis on the texture, color, shape and endless uses of stone in the hands of sensitive artists and a source of inspiration for designers and craftsmen in all areas.

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Venice is widely known as one of the most beautiful and magical places in the world; a city of water and light; of dreams and romance. But in this collection of stunning black & white photos by master photographers Piero Codato and Massimo Venchierutti, more than mere scenery is revealed. The shifting moods and texture of Venice; its timelessness, the congeniality of its people, and the languorous pace of this city full of gondolas but not a single car, are presented in images that will delight travelers of any age.

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Napoleon first dissolved the old republic of Venice because the city's political and military power had dissipated. Therafter, Venice rested, peacefully, on the laurels of its glorious past. Now, at the dawn of the new millennium, Venice remains a vast living museum. Since the Romantc period, poets, writers, and musicians have visited this city of love, palaces, churches, and canals in search of inspiration.

This richly illustrated book guides the reader on a seductively beautiful path through one of them ost beautiful cities in the western hemisphere, a city that appears to have emerged wondrously from the depths of the sea.

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Armchair travelers, as well as those who’ve been to Venice, will fall under the spell of this amazing city as witnessed in glorious rich color images and fascinating text. The book successfully reflects the magic and artistry of the city and the unending pull of its colorful past.

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