The Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice /

The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice is not a diachronic study of the ghetto's architectural development or microhistory of the masons who erected its tenements. Instead, this is a book about how the built landscape makes, in the words of W.J.T. Mitchell, "se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Katz, Dana E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Margins as laboratories of urban planning
  • Enclosures as topographies of vision
  • Windows as sites of visual disturbance
  • Walls as boundaries of the night.