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

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

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Bibliographic Details
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
Subject:	Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Venice -- Themes, motives. Sea monsters in art. Mermaids in art. Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives. Mermaids in art. Sea monsters in art. Italy -- Venice.
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.

Table of Contents:

A heritage of monsters
Marine hybrids in late fifteenth-century book decoration
Marine hybrids on Venetian funerary monuments
The church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Marine hybrids at centers of power
Bronze sea monsters for private homes.