Venice Carnival

Venice Carnival
Author: Paolo Alei
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-09-30
Genre: Carnival
ISBN: 9781902889016

The Venice Carnival is recognized worldwide as a symbol of all that is lavish and original in costume and design. Set amongst the 18th-century palazzos and piazzas, the Carnival has a life of its own, each year being lead by a theme as dramatic as the seasons, cosmos, or fire and influenced by mythology, history and culture. This book offers an insight into this vibrant Italian carnival and is complemented by historical information and contemporary photography.

Carnival in Venice

Carnival in Venice
Author: Gerald Hoberman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Carnival
ISBN: 9781919939223

A unique cultural statement, a kaleidoscope of European sophistication, finery and fun. This portfolio showcases the Carnival in Venice, providing fresh insight into its delightful attributes. With an incisive eye for detail and the subtleties of colour, texture and humanity, it captures the spirit and humour of the Carnival.

Venice Carnival

Venice Carnival
Author: Lea Rawls
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-03-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980634676

The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday (Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world-famous for its elaborate masks.It's said that the Carnival of Venice was started from a victory of the Venice Republic against the Patriarch of Aquileia, Ulrico di Treven in the year 1162. In the honour of this victory, the people started to dance and gather in San Marco Square. Apparently, this festival started on that period and became official in the Renaissance. It reappeared gradually in the nineteenth century, but only for short periods and above all for private feasts, where it became an occasion for artistic creations.After a long absence, the Carnival returned in 1979.[6] The Italian government decided to bring back the history and culture of Venice, and sought to use the traditional Carnival as the centerpiece of its efforts. The redevelopment of the masks began as the pursuit of some Venetian college students for the tourist trade. Since then, approximately 3 million visitors come to Venice every year for the Carnival.[7] One of the most important events is the contest for la maschera più bella ("the most beautiful mask") which will be judged by a panel of international costume and fashion designers. Several distinct styles of mask are worn in the Venice Carnival, some with identifying names. People with different occupations wore different masks.

Carnival Masks of Venice

Carnival Masks of Venice
Author: J. C. Brown
Publisher: Artist's and Photographers' Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Carnival masks
ISBN: 9781904332831

Each year in Venice the weeks preceeding the privations of Lent are forgotten in the exuberant release of carnival. The dissolute behaviour of its citizens in the 18th century reached such depths that the use of masks was banned, but revived in the 1970s it has since become the prevailing image of Carnevale. In this elegantly- designed book the reader is offered a concise introduction to the history of the carnival and mask-wearing, illustrated by J.C. Brown's moody and evocative photos of Venetian masks and the beautiful city.

Venice

Venice
Author: Pericles Boutos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The images in this book, taken at the Venice Carnival in 1996, 97, and 98 by the Greek photographer Pericles Boutos, illuminate and unmask this age-old Venetian tradition. Following in the footsteps of the great French-American tradition of photographers like Cartier-Bresson and Garry Winogrand, Boutos brings to the fore a Carnival which has lost, along with color, its very identity. That his images capture the contemporary reality of this much photographed spectacle without any cliche or shopworn excess is a testament to the photographer, who portrays with deceptive ease the behind-the-scenes rituals of the carnival's baroque proceedings.

Spot the Difference Book for Adults - Graffiti

Spot the Difference Book for Adults - Graffiti
Author: Drew Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781087926506

How long will it take you to finish all the puzzles? Inspiring, beautiful and creative. These urban artworks collected for your enjoyment. Study the pictures to spot the differences. All images are related to graffiti street art with devious changes. All color images with changes that you'll love searching for. Great book for relaxation for yourself or as a gift. 50 graffiti images Most images are medium to hard difficulty Two images per page Printed on 8.5 x 11 paper Each puzzle has 5 differences to find Answers are in the back of the book

Carnival at Candlelight

Carnival at Candlelight
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2009-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375894551

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Jack and Annie head back in time to Venice, Italy in the 1700s. With the help of a research book, a book of magic rhymes, and a set of mysterious instructions from Merlin, the heroes will save the beautiful city from a flood! Formerly numbered as Magic Tree House #33, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #5: Carnival at Candlelight. Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures Have more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!

Venice Incognito

Venice Incognito
Author: James H. Johnson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0520294653

"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the libertine Casanova. In Venice Incognito, James H. Johnson offers a spirited analysis of masking in this carnival-loving city. He draws on a wealth of material to explore the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. This vivid account goes beyond common views that masking was about forgetting the past and minding the muse of pleasure to offer fresh insight into the historical construction of identity.

Venice

Venice
Author: William H. McNeill
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009-11-15
Genre:
ISBN: 0226561542

In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081–1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores the technological, economic, and political bases of Venetian power and wealth, and the city’s unique status at the frontier between the papal and Orthodox Christian worlds. He pays particular attention to Venetian influence upon southeastern Europe, and from such an angle of vision, the familiar pattern of European history changes shape. “No other historian would have been capable of writing a book as direct, as well-informed and as little weighed down by purple prose as this one. Or as impartial. McNeill has succeeded admirably.”—Fernand Braudel, Times Literary Supplement “The book is serious, interesting, occasionally compelling, and always suggestive.”—Stanley Chojnacki, American Historical Review