Research Catalog

Title

The mermaids of Venice : fantastic sea creatures in Venetian Renaissance art / Alison Luchs.

Author

Luchs, Alison.

Publication

London : Harvey Miller Publishers, ©2010.

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Details

Description

vii, 273 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

This book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids inventions of Renaissance Venice and Padua. The chapters deal with sea-hybrid imagery in book decoration; tomb monuments; church decoration; centers of political activity and private homes.--Publisher.

Series Statement

[Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history] ; [58]

Uniform Title

Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history 58.

Alternative Title

Fantastic sea creatures in Venetian Renaissance art

Subject

• Geschichte 1420-1600
• Geschichte 1400-1600
• Geschichte 1460-1500
• Art, Renaissance > Italy > Venice > Themes, motives
• Sea monsters in art
• Mermaids in art
• Art, Renaissance > Themes, motives
• Mermaids in art
• Sea monsters in art
• Meerminnen
• Monsters
• Beeldende kunsten
• Bauplastik
• Bronzeplastik
• Buchmalerei
• Grabplastik
• Ikonographie
• Kunst
• Meerweib
• Meerwesen
• Wassergeist
• Meerweib
• Ungeheuer
• Motiv
• Kunst
• Wassergeist
• Italy > Venice
• Venetië (stad)
• Santa Maria dei Miracoli (Venedig)
• Venedig
• Venedig

Note

• Series statement from the Brepols website, viewed June 30, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-253) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A heritage of monsters -- Marine hybrids in late fifteenth-century book decoration -- Marine hybrids on Venetian funerary monuments -- The church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli -- Marine hybrids at centers of power -- Bronze sea monsters for private homes.

ISBN

• 9781905375455
• 190537545X

OCLC

• 670473922
• SCSB-10362802

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library