Full Description
The city of Venice holds a special place in the global imagination. This book explores the creation of one of its largest surviving depictions, which has remained almost unknown to the wider public since its creation exactly four centuries ago.
Table of Contents
Fialetti's View fold-out 6 (4)
Foreword 8 (2)
William Waldegrave
Subscribers 10 (1)
Acknowledgments 11 (14)
1 Introducing Fialetti's View of Venice 25 (14)
Deborah Howard
Henrietta McBurney
2 Venice: Reality and Representation 39 (16)
Deborah Howard
3 The Image of Venice in the Sixteenth 55 (12)
Century
Allison Sherman
4 Odoardo Fialetti: Painter and Printmaker 67 (14)
Laura Walters
5 Odoardo Fialetti's View of Venice Restored 81 (18)
Ruth Bubb
6 Sights and Sighs in the Serenissima: 99 (1)
Built Architecture and its Depiction
Andrew Hopkins
7 Sir Henry Wotton: Collector and Patron 100(14)
Henrietta Mcburney
8 Lying Abroad for the Good of his Country: 114(10)
Sir Henry Wotton and Venice in the Age of
the Interdict
Daniel Mcreynolds
9 The Learned Art of Architecture: Henry 124(12)
Wotton's Elements of Architecture (1624)
Christy Anderson
10 "This wonderful picture of a city that 136(12)
seems to float": Sir Henry Wotton's Gift to
Eton of Fialetti's View of Venice
Henrietta Mcburney
11 Technical Appendix 148(11)
Ruth Bubb
Bibliography 159(8)
Index 167(3)
Photographic Credits 170(1)
Notes on the Authors 171
