Venicescapes
is committed to promoting a greater understanding of Venice's historical and cultural importance and of its
artistic and architectural heritage through ongoing scholarly research. This inquiry, conducted at the pre-eminent
centers for Venetian studies, uses a multi-disciplinary approach in order to determine the manner in which various
political, economic, artistic, social, and religious forces all came together to create individual monuments and works of art.
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Studi veneziani
LXXIII (2016) pp. 15-94
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Custodian of Wisdom:
the Marciana
reading room and the transcendent knowledge of God
This first-ever complete and detailed study of the
twenty-one roundels that comprise the ceiling decoration
of the Marciana Library is a fascinating window onto the
cultural and political landscape at a critical crossroads
in Venetian history. The decorative program, conceived to help refashion the
Republic's self-image in the aftermath of its most
crushing defeat, ultimately
presents Venice as the ideal Platonic State, founded upon
the awareness of a transcendent reality and destined to
last in eternity.
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Studi veneziani the international journal of
the Istituto di Storia della Società e dello Stato veneziano
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Studi veneziani
LXXVII (2018) pp. 15-171
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Ascent to Wisdom:
the Marciana staircase and the patrician ideal
This comprehensive analysis of the esoteric symbols and allegories
that comprise the Marciana Library staircase traces the first steps
in the educational and moral formation of Venice’s future leaders. Within the philosophical framework of the Neoplatonic ascent of the soul,
the iconographic program conveys the concerns and goals of the Venetian government
in modeling the character of the ideal young patrician and forging temperate and stalwart rulers,
insisting as a conclusion on devotion to family, dynasty, and – above all – patria.
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Studi veneziani the international journal of
the Istituto di Storia della Società e dello Stato veneziano
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Studi veneziani
LXXXI (2020) pp. 119-199
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The Myth in Image:
Veronese's ceiling in the Hall
of the College
Drawing upon the Renaissance iconographic tradition, this study examines the decorative program
created for the Hall of the College where diplomatic representatives were received in audience
before the Signoria to ‘decipher’ the image of the Republic that the Venetian government wanted
to project to the greater world. Overall, the program exalts and explains the political stability
and social harmony of the Republic on the basis of the contemporary political treatises which presented
Venice as the very essence of good government, the living reality and the ultimate perfection of the
classical republican ideal.
published in
Studi veneziani the international journal of the
Istituto di Storia della Società e dello Stato veneziano
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