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Reflections in Stone: Four Venetian Villas of Andrea Palladio as Expressions of Sixteenth Century Venetian Political History
… country homes for influential members of the Venetian nobility. His villas can be interpreted as reflections of a new image of power and harmony that Venice wished to project to the world. The economic and political turmoil of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century forced Venice to …
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The Venetian Connection in early seventeenth-century England
… the king, and then, shortly afterwards, the Venetian Interdict controversy (1606–7), a dispute over papal objections to the autonomy of Venetian laws. The English Ambassador to Venice, Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639), and his chaplain, William Bedell (1571–1642), saw these twin crises as an …
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The Venetian Ghetto: An Experiment in Containment, 1516-1866
… populations. The walls that surrounded the Venetian Ghetto served both Christians and Jews, limiting movement while simultaneously providing protection and socioeconomic stability to both groups. My interdisciplinary analysis of the Ghetto, comprised of the History of Ideas, Social Art …
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The Venetian blind effect, binocular luster, and binocular rivalry
… three perceptual phenomena occur. These are the Venetian blind effect, or a perceived rotation of the bars around individual vertical axes; binocular luster, or a perceived shimmering; and binocular rivalry, or an alternating perception between the views of the two eyes. In this paper, it is …
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The Venetian Question in Austrian Foreign Relations, 1860-1866
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A Glossary of Sea Terms in Old Venetian Portolani
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The Ontology of the Venetian Halo in its Italian Context
… in and on its surface, and this has revealed the Venetian and Venetan artistic innovation of “glass” and “silk” haloes, through artists’ utilisation of contemporaneous industrial practices and their application to halo appearance. Additionally, extant architectural vocabulary is translated and …
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Ocular dominance and temporal dynamics in the venetian blind effect
<p>The visual system can use small disparities between the stimuli seen by each eye as a binocular cue for depth. Geometric disparities are the most commonly used cue for stereopsis, but disparities in contrast and luminance can also lead to the perception of depth and both can cancel perceived …
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The Venetian blind effect: Contrast disparity modulation in irradiation stereoscopy
… thresholds for the perception of slant in the venetian blind effect for a square-wave carrier spatial frequency of 3.14 c/deg and square-wave modulation spatial frequencies of 0.26, 0.39, 0.79, and 1.57 c/deg.</p><p>In Experiment 2 we increased the spatial frequencies. We measured contrast …
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Venetian Sunk-panel Bindings: A Sixteenth century Structure and Production
The topic of this research is the Venetian sunk-panel binding, one of the most elaborately decorated examples of luxury bookbinding ever produced in Venice. This thesis examines how Venetian sunk-panel bindings were manufactured, how their structure and finishing evolved over time, and the extent …
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A history of the Venetian sacred solo motet (c. 1610--1720).
… of the best Italian composers of the period. Venetian composers were at the forefront of the move toward the smaller concertato forms and, to fulfill various needs of church musicians, wrote in an increasingly virtuoso style intended to highlight the solo voice. This study traces the …
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Honour and the culture of male Venetian nobles, c. 1500-1650.
… individuals. The relatively small community of Venetian nobles, all clearly identified by name in ci vie birth records, are an ideal group for a prosopographical investigation. Honour leads us inexorably to indi vidual ac tion because ultimately it was the responsibility of individuals. It was a …
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A Comparison of Six Miserere Settings From the Eighteenth-Century Venetian Conservatories
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The Sacred Music of Antonio Lotti: Idiom and Influence of a Venetian Master
This thesis surveys the surviving manuscript sources of Antonio Lotti’s works to produce a complete catalogue of his extant sacred music. It also collates the known biographical details of Lotti (including proof of his birth in Venice) and those of his wife, Santa Stella. It defines the extent to …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
<p>This dissertation explores how early modern Russian identity was shaped by the built environment and, likewise, how the built environment was a result of an emerging Russian identity. I focus on the years 1472 to 1539 because they were crucial to the formation of this early modern Russian …
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Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto Scherzo and the Climate of Venetian Popular Music in the 1620s
… the first three decades of the 1600s. Many Venetian song collections were printed with alfabeto, a chordal tablature designed to facilitate even the most untrained of musicians with the necessary tools for accompanying singers on the fashionable five-course Spanish guitar. Carlo Milanuzzi's …
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A Fragile Balance: The Venetian Glass Industry in Cross-Cultural Artisitic Exchange with the Islamic World
<p>This thesis considers the significance of the Venetian glass industry and its economic situation with special emphasis on the effects of trade with the Islamic world. Venice's material opulence was mimicked by the fragile and elegant glass vessels of the day. From the middle of the fifteenth …
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