All Categories
    Filters
    Preferences
    Search

    Grand canal

    £18.00
    £20.00
    Price-Match is available in-store for recommended titles in CCCU module handbooks
    ISBN: 9788877433152
    Products specifications
    Attribute nameAttribute value
    AuthorFRANZOI,U
    Pub Date01/03/2006
    BindingHardback
    Pages220
    Publisher: Arsenale
    Ship to
    *
    *
    Shipping Method
    Name
    Estimated Delivery
    Price
    No shipping options
    Availability: Out of Stock
    Containing photographs of palazzi, and public and religious buildings, this title aims to reproduce the journey along the Grand Canal, Venice.

    The Grand Canal reproduces the journey along the world's most picturesque waterway through beautiful photographs of illustrious palaces, and public and religious buildings, all taken from the perspective of a boat. Each photograph displays a length of 278 feet of building fa ades allowing the reader study every block of the historic events and architectural history of each edifice. The introduction explains the story of the Grand Canal and of its importance as the place from which the city developed and its splendor grew. The narrative is accompanied by images of a Venice long gone, available only through these photographs from old souvenir albums, which were once sold to tourists at the beginning of the twenty-first century.