Venice's Mediterranean Colonies - Architecture and Urbanism (Hardcover)

This book examines the architecture and urbanism in the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia (modern Herakleion) as a case study, Maria Georgopoulou exposes the dynamic relationship that existed between colonizer and colony. Georgopoulou demonstrates how the Venetian colonists manipulated Crete's past history in order to support and legitimate colonial rule, particularly through the appropriation of older Byzantine traditions in civic and religious ceremonies.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	Maria Georgopoulou
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-78235-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General
LSN:	0-521-78235-X
Barcode:	9780521782357

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