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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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Custodian of Wisdom: 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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Ascent to Wisdom:
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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The Myth in Image: 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.
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