Venice, a Personal View
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
193170757X
ISBN-13
9781931707572
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology &
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1999
Print length
164 Pages
Weight
906 grams
Dimensions
25.40 x 27.00 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Photographs: collections
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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.
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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