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Incorporating the Middle Ages : the Bellini and the architecture of medieval Venice
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Pericolo, Lorenzo (2015) Incorporating the Middle Ages : the Bellini and the architecture of medieval Venice. In: Pericolo, Lorenzo and Richardson, Jessica N., (eds.) Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. ISBN 9782503555584
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Erasure: the term comes spontaneously to mind when considering the depiction of San Giovanni Evangelista in Lazzaro Bastiani’s 1494 Donation of the Relic (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice). Erasure of the church’s exterior: only the gabled roof of the brick façade, rimmed by Lombard bands of white stone and pierced with a white-stone molded oculus, looms into view in the painting’s upper center, its silhouette summoning up similar late Gothic Venetian façades, such as those of San Zanipolo or the Frari. Erasure of the church’s interior: even upon insisted observation, the transition between the middle ground portico and the nave—at the end of which a glimpse of the apse and a sculpted altarpiece appear—remains blurred; while the building loses its front wall, its interior structure does not become more transparent to the intruding gaze. Erasure of the church’s history: “old for its antiquity,” as defined uncannily by Francesco Sansovino in his 1581 Venetia città nobilissima, the “tempio” of San Giovanni is deceptively enriched with a sleek proscenium that conceals many of its late Gothic features.1
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||||
Publisher: | Brepols | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Turnhout, Belgium | ||||||
ISBN: | 9782503555584 | ||||||
Book Title: | Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy | ||||||
Editor: | Pericolo, Lorenzo and Richardson, Jessica N. | ||||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 321 | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 January 2018 | ||||||
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