Venetian Chic

Venetian Chic
Author: Francesca Bortolotto Possati
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Total Pages: 3
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1614285381

Venetian art connoisseur, interior designer, and hotelier Francesca Bortolotto Possati knows the intricacies of Venice. To have her as a guide is to experience firsthand her passion for the private side of the mythic city whose daily visitors outnumber its population. Join her to visit artists’ studios, elegant Venetian friends, and palaces’ secrets. Everywhere one wanders, a sense of history saturates the buildings and landscapes, harking back to the artists of the Renaissance and the chic masquerade balls of centuries past.The discerning eye of photographer Robyn Lea makes this book a revelation of the Venice of dreams, which will surely allow readers to see this iconic destination through new eyes.A sentimental foreword by Jeremy Irons perfectly complements this stunning volume.

Not in a Tuscan Villa

Not in a Tuscan Villa
Author: John Petralia
Publisher: Chartiers Creek Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780615762531

Newly retired and looking for more than a vacation, John and Nancy Petralia intrepidly pack a few suitcases and head to the "perfect" Italian city for a year. Within days their dream becomes a nightmare. After residing in two Italian cities, negotiating the roads and health care, discovering art, friends, food and customs, the Petralias learn more than they anticipate -- about Italy, themselves, what it means to be American, and what's important in life.

Paintings in Venice

Paintings in Venice
Author: Augusto Gentili
Publisher:
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780821228135

Featuring six-hundred captioned full-color reproductions, this critical study of the artwork of Venice features essays by four renowned art historians that capture a rich array of architectural monuments, paintings, and other artworks representing a broad spectrum of styles and periods. 10,000 first printing.

Glory of Venice

Glory of Venice
Author: Angelica Daneo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2016
Genre: Art, Italian
ISBN: 9780914738329

Medici Money

Medici Money
Author: Tim Parks
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847656870

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: how did a banker deal with the fact that the Church regarded interest as a sin and had made it illegal? How in a small republic like Florence could he avoid having his wealth taken away by taxation? But the bank became indispensable to the Church. And the family completely subverted Florence's claims to being democratic. They ran the city. Medici Money explores a crucial moment in the passage from the Middle Ages to the Modern world, a moment when our own attitudes to money and morals were being formed. To read this book is to understand how much the Renaissance has to tell us about our own world. Medici Money is one of the launch titles in a new series, Atlas Books, edited by James Atlas. Atlas Books pairs fine writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the world, in a new genre - the business book as literature.

The Venetian Painters Of The Renaissance

The Venetian Painters Of The Renaissance
Author: Bernhard Berenson
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473381215

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Titian

Titian
Author: Sheila Hale
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0062218131

The first definitive biography of the master painter in more than a century, Titian: His Life is being hailed as a "landmark achievement" for critically acclaimed author Sheila Hale (Publishers Weekly). Brilliant in its interpretation of the 16th-century master's paintings, this monumental biography of Titian draws on contemporary accounts and recent art historical research and scholarship, some of it previously unpublished, providing an unparalleled portrait of the artist, as well as a fascinating rendering of Venice as a center of culture, commerce, and power. Sheila Hale's Titian is destined to be this century's authoritative text on the life of greatest painter of the Italian High Renaissance.