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The Venetian Bride

Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and Its Empire

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

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The Venetian Bride

Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and Its Empire

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian senator with a distinguished career in service to the Venetian Republic. Their marriage in the mid-sixteenth century might be regarded as emblematic of the Venetian experience, with the metropole at the center of a fragmented empire: a Terraferma nobleman and the daughter of a Venetian senator, who raised their family in far off Crete in the stato da mar, in Venice itself, and in the Friuli and the Veneto in the stato da terra. The fortunes and misfortunes of the nine surviving Della Torre children and their descendants, tracked through the end of the Republic in 1797, are likewise emblematic of a change in feudal culture from clan solidarity to individualism and intrafamily strife, and ultimately, redemption. Despite the efforts by both the Della Torre and the Bembo families to preserve the patrimony through a succession of male heirs, the last survivor in the paternal bloodline of each was a daughter. This epic tale highlights the role of women in creating family networks and opens a precious window into a contentious period in which Venetian republican values clash with the deeply rooted feudal traditions of honor and blood feuds of the mainland.

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437

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Oxford University Press

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0192894579

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9780192894571

Private Lives in Renaissance Venice

Art, Architecture, and the Family

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

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Private Lives in Renaissance Venice

Art, Architecture, and the Family

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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Yale University Press

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0300102364

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9780300102369

Venice & Antiquity

The Venetian Sense of the Past

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

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Venice & Antiquity

The Venetian Sense of the Past

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.

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Yale University Press

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0300067003

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9780300067002

Venice & Antiquity

The Venetian Sense of the Past

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

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The Venetian Sense of the Past

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The Venetian Bride

Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

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Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire

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400

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Oxford University Press

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0192647369

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Private Lives in Renaissance Venice

Art, Architecture, and the Family

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

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Art, Architecture, and the Family

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Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

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Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio

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Venetian art - Venice - Themes and motives - Narrative painting Renaissance Italy.

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0300047436

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Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio

By: Patricia Fortini Brown

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Venetian art - Venice - Themes and motives - Narrative painting Renaissance Italy.

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Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice

By: Patricia H. Labalme

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Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice

By: Patricia H. Labalme

This volume brings together the published academic essays of the Renaissance historian Patricia Hochschild Labalme (1927-2002). Appearing between 1955 and 1999, they deal with the intellectual, social and religious life of Venice in the 15th-16th centuries. An important focus is the exploration of the careers, milieu and writings of cultural and literary women of early modern Venice, a field to which the author made a particular contribution.

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270

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Taylor & Francis

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1000944832

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9781000944839

The Renaissance Portrait

From Donatello to Bellini

By: Patricia Lee Rubin

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The Renaissance Portrait

From Donatello to Bellini

By: Patricia Lee Rubin

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588394255

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The Venetian Bride

The Venetian Bride

Private Lives in Renaissance Venice

Private Lives in Renaissance Venice

Venice & Antiquity

Venice & Antiquity

Venice & Antiquity

Venice & Antiquity

The Venetian Bride

The Venetian Bride

Private Lives in Renaissance Venice

Private Lives in Renaissance Venice

Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio

Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio

Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio

Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio

Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice

Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice

The Renaissance Portrait

The Renaissance Portrait

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