The mermaids of Venice : fantastic sea creatures in Venetian Renaissance art /

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Author / Creator:Luchs, Alison.
Imprint:London : Harvey Miller Publishers, c2010.
Description:vii, 273 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8271520
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Varying Form of Title:Fantastic sea creatures in Venetian Renaissance art
ISBN:9781905375455 (hbk.)
190537545X (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-253) and index.
Summary:This book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids inventions of Renaissance Venice and Padua. The chapters deal with sea-hybrid imagery in book decoration; tomb monuments; church decoration; centers of political activity and private homes.--Publisher.