Becoming Venetian : immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice /

Situated between the patriciate and popular orders, cittadini occupied the middle-tier of Venice's tripartite social hierarchy. Unlike the nobility, the citizenry was not a closed caste, and foreign individuals not fortunate enough to be born in Venice could become naturalised citizens provided...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	De Maria, Blake, 1964-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2010]
Subjects:	Art and society > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century. Immigrants > Italy > Venice > Social conditions > 16th century. Venice (Italy) > Social conditions > 16th century.

Table of Contents:

Becoming Venice, becoming Venetian
The commercial famiglia
The Scuola Grande di San Rocco, I: the family chapel
The Scuola Grande di San Rocco II: competition and cooperation
Creating a façade: the patronage of domestic architecture
Inside the naturalized citizen home
Fame and infamy, the seventeenth century
Catalogue: individual family histories.