Great book about Venice's architecture for those who want to understand the city in more depth.

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Product Description

This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated, this edition of Deborah Howard's classic volume (first published in 1980) is filled with splendid illustrations, most of them new and reproduced in full colour. Howard writes in a highly accessible style, inviting those who visit Venice in person, armchair travellers, and all students of Venetian art and architecture to look more closely at the unique architecture of one of the world's most beautiful cities.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #151400 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
"Well documented and superbly illustrated... This will surely remain the standard work on the subject, based on acquaintance with the architecture of western Asia as well as that of Venice about which she has written the best brief history." Hugh Honour, New York Review of Books; "Howard has produced a thoughtful work, almost meditative at times, whose original and creative approach will leave readers wanting to visit both Venice and the realm further east from which it received so much." John Renard, Religion and the Arts; "An expanded and updated edition of Howard's concise summary of Venetian architecture... This new edition is most notable for its very fine selection of colour photographs, a significant improvement over earlier versions. The clear prose and direct style, coupled with the author's obvious familiarity with the trends in scholarship on Venetian architecture, make the book useful for anyone interested in the subject, from first-year undergraduates to faculty members and researchers." Choice"

About the Author
Deborah Howard is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. She has also published with Yale University Press Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture (0 300 08504 4, [pound]45.00 ) and Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaissance Venice.

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Customer Reviews

A wonderful evocation of Venice
this is a really first rate book for either the specialist or general reader. New pictures bring the different buildings to life and the writer's very clear style gets across valuable information.

The Architectural History of Venice
The book was delivered promptly and in excellent order. A lovely book and very useful for my husbands MA course and for me to enjoy.