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Author | : Ettore Vio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781878351586 |
No church in the West quite compares to St. Mark's in Venice, with its distinctive merging of aspects Eastern and Western, of church and state, of symbolic form and liturgical function. This book introduces readers to an extraordinary building through a combination of authoritative text and spectacular photographs. Each of three general sections ("History and Society," "Architecture and Sculpture," "Mosaics and the Treasury") contains general essays augmented by brief focused discussion of specific objects or themes. More than 250 images provide a rare at details ranging from the tessellated floor through the tombs, marbles, altarpieces, mosaics, sculptures, and treasury objects.
Author | : Ada Calhoun |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0393249794 |
A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant’s pear orchard to today’s hipster playground—organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared “St. Marks is dead.” In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants’ haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids—but it has always been a place that outsiders call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.
Author | : James Shepard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1907 |
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Author | : Philip Slaughter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Culpeper County (Va.) |
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Author | : St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Groveton, Va.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Groveton (Va.) |
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Author | : Joseph A. Corrigan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Catholics |
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Author | : Ettore Vio |
Publisher | : Scala Group |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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The church that the Venetians built to house the body of St. Mark, taken by them from Alexandria, is famous the world over. They spared no expense, and employed the most skilled artisans, to create a monument to their faith in their patron saint and to their commercial and artistic glory. Mosaics, marbles, pavements, sculptures, icons and decorations are unrivalled in their sumptuousness and as examples of Byzantine art at its apex. With 133 high-quality color photographs, including many details and many full-page illustrations, this book provides complete documentation of the history and decorative program of the Basilica. It will appeal to those who are interested in Venice, in Byzantine art, in mosaics, pavements, the decorative arts, and Church history.
Author | : Philip Slaughter |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2024-08-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385559499 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author | : James M. Burgess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780893084585 |
A capsule historical overview of the evolution of churches in S.C., their founders, ministers, prominent laymen and women. The author uniquely interweaves the ecclesiastical background in brief sketches of his wife's ancestral churches for the benefit of their children, Biographical sketches and detailed St. Mark's Parish church activities update the history since circa 1681 when the first Episcopal church was built in Charleston, the creation of St. Mark's Parish by Act of Assembly, 21 May 1757, and through the Revolutionary War.
Author | : Russell Shorto |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2005-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400096332 |
In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.