Venice, a Personal View

Name: Venice, a Personal View
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
SKU: 9781931707565
Price: 14400 KES
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ISBN: 9781931707565

by Andrea Baldeck

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1931707561

ISBN-13 9781931707565

Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press

Imprint University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology &

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 29th, 1999

Print length 164 Pages

Weight 666 grams

Dimensions 26.70 x 27.90 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Photographs: collections

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The delicate balance of Venice with the natural world is evident as the city rises from the water on wooden pilings, reflecting its splendor. The air, carrying heat and winds, envelops life like liquid gauze. Fire has both destroyed and reshaped the city, fueling its industry and commerce as a trading nation

Poised in delicate, often hazardous balance with the liquid natural world the fabric of the man-made city rises out of the water and is reflected in it. The earth of Venice, a tissue of alluvial silt, is upheld and given form by a vast subterranean endoskeleton of wooden pilings supporting buildings of splendor with their feet in the mud. The air of Venice carries both heat and swells from North Africa''s deserts and envelops life like liquid gauze. And fire, the most volatile of the four elements, has both destroyed and redrawn swaths of the city and fed the industry and commerce of a trading nation.

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