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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Venetian Republic"”.
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THE USE OF THE MARIAN ICON IN VENICE: RELIGION AND POLITICS MERGE IN THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE
… the success of Venice from the beginning of the Republic. Venice was exposed to the Byzantine idea that the union of the spiritual and material could be achieved in the form of an icon. The church quickly realized the value of visual images in their apostolic mission and began the extensive use …
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THE PLAGUE AND THE PARTHENON: CRUSADE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASE IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN
… major offensive by Christian powers, led by the Venetian Republic, against Ottoman controlled Greece. Christian victories during the war were widely celebrated across western Europe, but even in victory Christian forces took severe casualties from multiple disease outbreaks. First, this study …
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Pietro Bembo’s Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars
… to the constant wars and political in fighting. Venetian Pietro Bembo wrote historical accounts of this period during the Renaissance. His contemporaries, Marino Sanudo, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini, also wrote historical accounts of this time. My research spotlights Bembo’s …
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Teorie e immagini del governo "misto" nel Cinquecento: i casi di Gasparo Contarini, Donato Giannotti, Paolo Paruta e Traiano Boccalini
… faces the debated topic of the traditions of Republicanism in the Modern Age assuming, as a point of view, the problem of the "mixed" government. The research therefore dwells upon the use of this model in Sixteenth-Century Italy, also in connection with the historical events of two standard …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
… was an era of immeasurable change within the Venetian Republic and across Europe, as the continent shed the last few remnants of the Middle Ages through mass transformation and development. During this epoch of tumultuous change, Ovid’s Metamorphoses gripped the imagination of many, becoming …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
… was an era of immeasurable change within the Venetian Republic and across Europe, as the continent shed the last few remnants of the Middle Ages through mass transformation and development. During this epoch of tumultuous change, Ovid’s Metamorphoses gripped the imagination of many, becoming …
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North Italian liturgical music in the late sixteenth century
… vocal music by composers working in the Venetian Republic and adjacent territories, from the late 1560s, when the decrees of the Council of Trent were implemented in regional councils, to the earliest years of the new century, when the economic prosperity of Venice was starting to wane. …
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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 …