Venetian Palaces

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best ever.......2007-08-03

This is a historians, architects, and artists must. Nothing beats this professional, tasteful, and meticulous presentation of Venetian pomp. The only trouble is availability and price.

Venetian Palaces.......2003-02-18

If you appreciate Venetian architecture or any architecture, this is an absolute must have book. I could only rate it five stars, but it deserves a hundred. The best book on Venice in my library of over a dozen, hands down!

informative, comprehensive and visually stunning!.......1999-06-07

A beautifull book that comprehensively covers the history and design of the palazzos of Venice. Particularly noteworthy for many stunning interior shots that are rarely find in other publications, and for the family crests that accompany each building. Excellent text that places each building stylistically, historically and contextually. Good paper stock and type. Makes you want to paint your walls red and cover everything in velvet. Really!

A must-have book.......1999-01-06

Love the book. Great photography and easy reading. Venice is poetry and romance and this book captures the essence of that. Highly recommend to all readers and travelers.

Venetian Palaces - A Brief Review.......1997-07-30

The photos found in this book are great. They reveal the details of the sculptures found in various palaces in Venice to the extent that it looks as if the sculpture you are staring at is placed in front of you! On the other hand, the illustration of each palace is preceded by the coat-of-arm of the family that originally owns the palace, except the Doge's Palace. I must admit that the coat-of-arms in parade are rarely shown in those books about Venice and each of them is more than just attractive - they are masterpiece of art and exotic!! P.S. I am most impressed by the photo that features the western facade of the Doge's Palace in Saint Mark Square. It reflects the fact that the Doge's Palace is surely one of the most outstanding palaces in the world!

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Palaces of Venice (A Studio book)
Peter Lauritzen , and Alexander Zieckle
Manufacturer: Studio
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0670537241

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This author you will hear a lot more from
sensuous prose captures place and passion

The Palace: A Novel
Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0060956534
Release Date: 2000-05-02

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Take Dante Alighieri's passion for the divine Beatrice, marry it to the picaresque adventuring of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, hand the whole thing over to the Brothers Grimm for some fine-tuning, and you might end up with something remarkably similar to Lisa St. Aubin de Terán's The Palace. This is the tale of young Gabriele del Campo, a soldier in Garibaldi's army during the 19th-century Italian Risorgimento. While languishing as a prisoner of war, this former stonecutter meets Colonel Vitelli, a nobleman who educates him in the ways of the upper classes. After many near-death experiences in prison, Vitelli and Gabriele are liberated and agree to meet again in Venice, but the colonel never arrives. While he awaits his friend, del Campo begins a rapid transformation from rustic stonecutter to man of means, aided by an astounding run of luck at the gambling tables and a friendly gondolier named Giovanni, who becomes his valet, advisor, and companion.

But what is a fairytale without a love interest? In The Palace, that role is assumed by the phantom figure of Donna Donatella, the daughter of a prominent landowner for whom Gabriele did some work before the war. Though he glimpsed her only once and has never seen her again, del Campo dedicates his life and newfound wealth to creating a palace fit for his dream girl. St. Aubin de Terán invests her story with wit and not a few surprising twists--for in the end, Donna Donatella may well have been supplanted in Gabriele's heart by the very monument he has built to celebrate her. Charming, subtle, and evocative, The Palace is a remarkable novel that explores the mercurial frontier between passion and obsession. --Margaret Prior

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One of today's most imaginative and lyrical writers, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran weaves together passion, idealism, and adventures in this mesmerizing fable set against the ornate backdrop of nineteenth-century Italy. The palace is the vision of Gabriele del Campo, a young, idealistic stonemason's apprentice imprisoned for supporting Garibaldi's revolutionary unification of Italy. A poor peasant, he has falen in love at first sight with the rich and beautiful noblewoman Donna Donatella. He yearns to be pulled out of poverty, and dreams of winning Donatellaa's heart and building a palaceworthy of his love.

As del Campo languishes in prison, he takes the first steps toward his dream. His cellmate Colonel Giovanni Vitelli, a nobleman, educates him in the customs of the gentry; meanwhile, in his mind elaborate plans for the palace's construction are already taking shape. Twice escaping execution, del Campo emerges from prison to find wealth as a fearless gambler in the corrupt underworld of Venice. Winning a large estate in Castello at a sinister high-stakes gambling house, Gabriele begins to build the palace of his dreams. At last he might win Donna Donatella's love.

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This author you will hear a lot more from.......2000-04-10

Truly a great story. It started out very dickenish like a tale of two cities and then moved in her own style. Whats even better of her writing is the fact is that both the story and characters give the reading a tremendous boast. So many writers today suck because they are only good at one or the other. Her creativity in her writing is truly unique. Its truly a great moving story but the ending dragged on about the palace a little too long. Even still, I think I want to read more of her work since I am now a fan (which I do not become that often).

sensuous prose captures place and passion.......1999-08-02

The craze for Italy following in the wake of Frances Mayes brings this exquisite novel to America at last, nearly three years after its UK appearance. Set in mid-nineteenth century Italy,it's the story of a sculptor's love for a woman called Donna Donatella, and the huge and fabulous house he sets out to build for them to share. Donna makes only the briefest of appearances in the story - out of which Gabriele, the sculptor, conjures a passion and an obsession, which manifests itself in the palace. Lisa St Aubin De Teran's magical prose makes this slow, subtle tale genuinely gripping. Her lush and evocative use of words - she is one of the finest stylists in modern English language fiction - is nevertheless very precise. You will picture Venice clearly in your mind through her remarkably fresh descriptions, and see each stone of the house as it evolves. A book to revel in, to take time with, to read and read again. And to lead you to the seven earlier novels of Lisa St Aubin De Teran.

Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice

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Etchings & Pastels to change your view of Whistler

Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice
Margaret F. MacDonald
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520230493

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In September 1879, James McNeill Whistler boarded the Venice-bound night train in Paris. He was forty-five years old and bankrupt. What was to be a three-month stay in the Italian city--long enough to complete a set of twelve etchings--stretched to fourteen months. When Whistler returned to London, he brought back over fifty magnificent etchings and a hundred pastels, far in excess of the original commission. In Palaces in the Night, Margaret F. MacDonald looks at this key period in Whistler's career, examining his unique vision of Venice and his development of the medium of etching. She shows how he reestablished himself in the art world of London and Paris, turning disaster and disgrace into profit and prestige. Lavishly illustrated with some of the most beautiful and intriguing images Whistler ever produced, this book provides a fascinating account of a pivotal period in the artist's long and complicated career.
Whistler's aim was to restore both his fortune and reputation with the Venetian etchings. To that end he included views of familiar sights like the Riva degli Schiavoni and San Marco, but he also captured quiet backwaters, secret gardens, and lantern-lit windows that did not appear in any guidebook. His selection of views and compositions, plus the expressiveness of his line and printing, differentiated his work from that of others, and MacDonald shows the process by which Whistler selected, shaped, and edited his Venetian corpus. He drew figures in distinctively Italian costume, each an individual, moving, gesturing, and interacting with other real people.
An appendix of Whistler's letters from Venice provides an entertaining account of his time there and also deepens the reader's understanding of how the city challenged and inspired him.

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Etchings & Pastels to change your view of Whistler.......2005-09-24

This is an amazingly fine book of Whistler's etchings & pastels for a very reasonable price now that it has been remaindered. To me, the absolute economy of means in his pastels is stunning. Every pastel artist should pick up this book. Just looking carefully at these little masterpieces is worth more than a whole course in pastel drawing.

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Lost in Translation

Palaces of Venice
Andrea Fasolo
Manufacturer: Arsenale Editrice
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ASIN: 8877432942

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Lost in Translation.......2005-01-30

I bought this book some months ago in anticipation of a trip to Venice - which I have just returned from . I only glanced at the pictures before I left , with a view to savouring them and reading the text when I returned home.

When I actually started to read the text I discovered that the English translation is like something out of "Monty Python" ... the sketch with the obscene English/Hungarian phrase book . The line "my hovercraft is full of eels" would not be out of place in this book. It is a bizarre, pseudo architectural, English - Italian mangle of words, tenses, concepts & jargon. The dust jacket blurb even manages to insult the photographer (referring to his other works -"... among these volumes , some are worthy of value").

Some phrases ..."prevelaently ligneous", "architectonical experimentation", "autarchic economy" etc etc - and that's just the introduction !

Almost none of the complete sentences in the book make any sense whatsoever.

The photos are nice though - hence the 2 stars.

It'll look good on your coffee table, as long as you don't attempt to read it !

The Doge's Palace in Venice (Electa Concise Guides)

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The Doge's Palace in Venice (Electa Concise Guides)

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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8843559265

Venetian Palazzi/Palaste in Venedig/Palais Venitiens: Palaste in Venedig (Evergreen Series)

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Venetian Palazzi
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Venetian Palazzi/Palaste in Venedig/Palais Venitiens: Palaste in Venedig (Evergreen Series)
Attila Dorigato , and Giuseppe Mazzariol
Manufacturer: Benedikt Taschen Verlag
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Venetian Palazzi.......2004-09-23

An excellent volume with color photographs, an engraving, and a brief history and description of each of around a couple dozen palazzi. I only wish there were even more photographs and longer and even more detailed desciptions and histories of each palazzo and that many more palazzi were covered. No doubt I am being greedy, as such a work covering all the palazzi would require a gargantuan size or many volumes and only large libraries and millionaires could afford it. I heartily recommend this volume who loves the beautiful and grandly elegant interiors of homes of the Venetian Nobility and the art (Titian to Tiepolo) which graced them, or to anyone planning a trip to the city of the former Serene Republic.

Great Pictures.......2001-01-15

This book has excellent photography, and the narratives are just as good. I would highly reccomend this book to anyone interested in Italian architecture, design, or furnishings. Although the size of this book is rather large, the pictures are very detailed, and show off the intricacies of every design.

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Armoury Of The Dogs Palace In Venice
Umberto Franzoi
Manufacturer: Stamperia Di Venezia Editrice
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000M11BE6

Ca' d'Oro Palace - Self Guided Walking Tour - Venice Italy (Great Discoveries "Personal Audio Guides" - Formatted for MP3 Players)

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Ca' d'Oro Palace - Self Guided Walking Tour - Venice Italy (Great Discoveries "Personal Audio Guides" - Formatted for MP3 Players)
Jessica Krzywicki
Manufacturer: WhiteHot Productions
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ASIN: 1599711311

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Great Discoveries Audio Tour of the Ca dOro will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit this late Gothic palace on the Grand Canal. Ca dOro, one of the most charming buildings in Venice Italy and one of the most striking examples of the uniqueness of Venetian architecture is one of the older palaces, or palazzi, lining the Grand Canal. Its harmony of design and color continue to fascinate and charm Venetians and visitors alike. The palace, always known as Golden House due to its long lost gilded decorations now houses the Giorgio Franchetti Art Gallery, home to 15th and 16th century art by the great Venetian masters, Titian, Tiepolo, Giorgione, Tintoretto, and others. Our carefully researched tour identifies and locates the most relevant artwork to ensure that you do not miss the important pieces and that you clearly understand each items artistic and historic significance. Professional narrators, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, delight, inform and amuse as they present the Galleries history, its great works of art, and beguiling tales of the lives of the people, making your visit a most memorable experience. Tour includes an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your player. This 1 hour and 35 minute, 14 track, audio tour is in MP3 format, on 1 CD, ready to load to any MP3 player library, or ready for play on any CD player offering MP3 capability. (Not for use on CD players that only play standard CD formatted discs.)

Ca' Rezzonico Palace - Self Guided Walking Tour - Venice Italy (Great Discoveries "Personal Audio Guides" - Formatted for MP3 Players)

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Ca' Rezzonico Palace - Self Guided Walking Tour - Venice Italy

Ca' Rezzonico Palace - Self Guided Walking Tour - Venice Italy (Great Discoveries "Personal Audio Guides" - Formatted for MP3 Players)
Stephen Soncini
Manufacturer: WhiteHot Productions
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ASIN: 1599711133

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Great Discoveries Audio Tour of Ca' Rezzonico will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit this majestic but imposing 17th century marble palace. It is one of the few palaces in Venice, which permits public insight into what lies behind the ornamental but often secretive facades of the many exquisite buildings lining the Grand Canal. Today it is one of the finest museums in Venice, housing a wonderful collection of 18th century Venetian art. Largely because of its unique character, where objects designed for great palazzos are displayed in a palace, the contents and the building harmonize in a way not possible in a purposely-built museum. Our carefully researched tour identifies and locates the most relevant artwork to ensure that you do not miss the important pieces and that you clearly understand each items artistic and historic significance. Professional narrators, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, delight, inform and amuse as they present the Galleries history, its great works of art, and beguiling tales of the lives of the people, making your visit a most memorable experience. Tour includes an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your player. This 2 hour and 10 minute, 14 track, audio tour is in MP3 format, on 1 CD, ready to load to any MP3 player library, or ready for play on any CD player offering MP3 capability. (Not for use on CD players that only play standard CD formatted discs.)

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Ca' Rezzonico Palace - Self Guided Walking Tour - Venice Italy .......2006-02-03

One can only be astounded by the interior of the Rezzonico. The Whitehot Audio Tour really added a whole new dimension to the experience. By having a narrative of the interior I was able to gain a better appreciation of the magificent of the surroundings. Whitehot got ir right when they developed this product.

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This no-nonsense introductory guide coaches novice photographers in every aspect of taking great pictures of their friends and family, from selecting the right type of camera to shooting the actual pictures. Composed of a series of simple, concise discussions—each just two to three pages in length—this book addresses the basics of great imaging without requiring too much study time. Features include a description of camera types and their main components, photo composition guidelines on subject placement and camera angles, information on creating lighting effects, and professional posing techniques. An update of a classic, this latest edition has been freshened with new portrait and product shots and a new section on digital cameras and digital capture techniques.

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great time saver!.......2006-10-11

with the advent of readily available digital photography, the temptation is great to just snap away and toss out the unusable images. this book teaches you how to make the most of every shot, how to think about composition and lighting to get more "keepers". highly recommended!

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Alaska in the early l950s was one of the world's last great, undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In l958, Congress awarded the new state over l00 million acres to promote economic development. In l971, it gave Native groups more than 40 million acres to settle land claims and facilitate the building of an 800-mile oil pipeline. Spurred by the newly militant environmental movement, it also began to consider the preservation of Alaska's magnificent scenery and wildlife.

Northern Landscapes is the first comprehensive examination of the campaign to preserve wild Alaska through the creation of a vast system of parks and wildlife refuges. Drawing on archival sources and interviews, Daniel Nelson traces disputes over resources alongside the politics of the Alaska statehood movement. He provides in-depth coverage of the growth of Alaskan environmental organizations, their partnerships with national groups, and their participation in political campaigns into the l970s.

Engagingly written, Northern Landscapes focuses on the activism that led to the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of l980, which set aside more than l00 million acres, doubling the size of the national park and wildlife refuge systems, and tripling the size of the wilderness preservation system. Arguably the single greatest triumph of environmentalism, ANILCA also set the stage for continuing battles over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's national forests.

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How Alaska wilderness was saved.......2005-04-25

In this book a distinguished historian tells how devoted citizen activists persuaded Congress to save the greatest landscapes of Alaska. The Alaska Lands Act saved more than 100 million acres in national parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas. The author traces the story of this law from its roots in the 1960s to its enactment in 1980. This book amazed me with its rich and accurate details about the work done by conservation groups, ranging from Alaska grassroots groups to the national Alaska Coalition. (I was a minor player in this campaign in the early years and later was an observer from my job in the Department of the Interior.)

The author has a rare understanding of how citizen groups function. He describes how people from diverse backgrounds and different generations, with diverse skills, can pool their efforts to produce a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

The author tells much about the interactions among the crucial players working to save wild Alaska: Alaskan conservation activists, national conservation leaders, the two crucial congressional leaders John Seiberling and Morris Udall, Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, and President Jimmy Carter. He gives credit to the millions of people all over the country who wrote letters, spoke at public hearings, and buttonholed their congressmembers.

"Northern Landscapes" is worthwhile reading for anyone who wants to help save wild places. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is constantly threatened by boomers proposing oil drilling, and the rain forest of the Tongass National Forest still needs more defenders. From Maine to California, each of us in our own part of the United States can find wild places worth saving, and we can join hands with local groups who are organizing to save them.

Daniel Nelson. Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska.(Book review) : An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

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Daniel Nelson. Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska.(Book review) : An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy
Jerry McBeath
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Title: Daniel Nelson. Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska.(Book review)
Author: Jerry McBeath
Publication: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (Magazine/Journal)
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Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska.(BOOKSHELF)(Book Review): An article from: OnEarth

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Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska.(BOOKSHELF)(Book Review): An article from: OnEarth
Laura Wright
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ASIN: B000AM3ZR8
Release Date: 2005-07-26

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This digital document is an article from OnEarth, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 551 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska.(BOOKSHELF)(Book Review)
Author: Laura Wright
Publication: OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
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Volume: 27 Issue: 2 Page: 41(1)

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