Seeing Venice

by Franck, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9781930337046
• ISBN10: 1930337043
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Codhill Press

Summary

Take a luminous journey deep into the heart of hidden Venice, with Frederick Franck as you guide. His quietly evocative drawings and descriptions bring to vivid life the city of islands, La Serenissima, the Queen of the Sea, "that most human of cities," Venice.

Table of Contents

Overture	9	(6)
the last of human cities
Axis Mundi	15	(1)
our planet's pivot located
Venice - A Stage-Set	16	(7)
the show must go on
Venetian Faces	23	(5)
physiognomies de-mytholigized
Concerto	28	(5)
Brahms, the Unsinkable
Death in Venice	33	(6)
floating - blessed - into eternity
Lovers	39	(3)
an aphrodisiac city
Rainwalk Ghetto	42	(6)
the Shammes does not live here anymore
La Chiesa	48	(8)
Saint Mark's cruising eye
Gondoli, Gondola	56	(6)
the Solo Mio continuum
Santa Maria della Salute	62	(4)
the Virgin's Presentation
Ponte Dell'Occhio	66	(3)
light on shattered mirrors
The Lonely Ones	69	(3)
on islands of isolation
Lunchtime	72	(4)
shutters going up all over
Aqua Alta	76	(4)
promenade in hip boots
Horses	80	(6)
two millennia of horseplay
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis	86	(6)
art appreciation in seven seconds
Intermezzo on Terra Firma	92	(2)
splendors of technology
Buon Natale	94	(8)
the manger afloat
Lavalliere	102	(4)
men of distinction..
Carnevale	106	(12)
a city in frenzied trance
The Islands	118
spirits and ghosts, Torcello, Burano, Mazzorbo