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The city of Venice
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Trapped modes near Venice storm gates
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
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The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625
… aspects of the business of sculpture in Venice from 1525 to 1625. Based on systematic examination, analysis and interpretation of myriad archival sources (unpublished and published), primary texts and key objects, it answers fundamental questions such as: how was sculpture commissioned in …
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One degree removed : the last carnival of Venice
… - our current unsustainable paradigm of growth. Venice will be the first major city to drown because of climate change.
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Response of Venice storm gates to incident waves
For the prevention of flooding of Venice a system of gates to close the inlets of the lagoon has been designed. Each system is composed of a series of 20 hollow gates hinged at the bottom. In the present work a linear theory is developed first to study the motions of the gates forced by a …
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Bernardino Licinio: Portraiture, Kinship and Community in Renaissance Venice
… was a painter of Bergamasque origin active in Venice from c. 1510 to c. 1550. Licinio was a prolific painter of portraits, concert scenes and religious images for the home and headed a prosperous family workshop. Yet the artist is largely denied importance within the current art historical …
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Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c.1280-1413
… the motif was not popular in fourteenth-century Venice. The political structures of Venice and its citizens’ supposedly innate abhorrence of public expressions of individuality in the Republic are often cited as reasons for the absence of individual donor portraits; the examples that have …
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Commercial Versus Spiritual Values in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
An Intense interest in Shakespeare has possessed the writer ever since she took a course in the rapid reading of hie plays ease years ago. Learning of this interest Rev. Paul F. Smith, English advisor, suggested the topic of this thesis and explained the new method of studying Shakespeare by …
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The architecture of storytelling : children's shelter in Venice, California
… explore these issues is a children's shelter in Venice, California. A shelter for children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, and or neglect. The shelter is a place were storytelling can be re-introduced into the children's lives, since their parents or storytellers are no …
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Images: A Mask for Scuola Vecchia della Misericordia,Venice
… Vechchia della Misericordia, in a small campo in Venice. The thesis further explores the following ideas through a set of drawings and images : 'Revealing' made possible through the degree of concealment. 'Parting of the Veil' as a Byzantine influence in Venice. Theater and the mask. Temporary and …
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Old Age in Venice and the Terraferma, c.1550-1700
The Venetian state of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was and is ordinarily characterised as a gerontocracy, governed by elderly noblemen. While the key role of age – especially old age, vecchiezza – in structuring the political life of the city is familiar, historians have overlooked how …
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Experiments on subharmonic resonance of the Venice lagoon storm gates
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Theory of subharmonic resonance of storm gates for Venice lagoon
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Sand transport in Chioggia Inlet, Venice Lagoon and resulting morphodynamic evolution
… of sand transport in Chioggia Inlet, southern Venice Lagoon, and the resulting morphological evolution have been investigated. Bathymetric analysis has established that there is a net export of sediment from the southern Lagoon Basin, and that significant morphodynamic changes in the …
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Sand transport in northern Venice Lagoon through the tidal inlet of Lido
… Inlet, the largest of<br/>three tidal inlets in Venice Lagoon, Italy. Morphological analysis has established the presence<br/>of an ebb-tidal delta extending from the mouth of Lido Inlet as well as other features typical<br/>of tidal inlets. The stability of the inlet, as well as the canals of …
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The Representation of Battles and War in Late Quattrocento and Cinquecento Venice
… and war in late fifteenth and sixteenth century Venice, exploring the relationship between the historical situation and the artistic representation of the military culture in a variety of visual representations. Tracing different functions and uses of the depiction of battle themes throughout the …
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