Parution : Giovanni Florio, Alessandro Metlica (dir.), “Contending Representations II: Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024
The volume addresses the issue of political celebration in early modern Venice. Dealing with processional orders and iconographic programs, historiographical narratives and urbanistic canons, stylistic features and diplomatic accounts, the interdisciplinary contributions gathered in these pages aim to question the performative effectiveness and the social consistency of the so called ‘myth’ of Venice: a system of symbols, beliefs and meanings offering a self-portrait of the ruling elite, the Venetian patriciate. In order to do so,...