Venice Sketchbook

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312334581
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice Sketchbook written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial tour of the most significant landmarks of Venice's "La Serenissima" seaport discusses how the city's architecture reflects its history as a center of learning and a regional superpower, providing coverage of such areas as the Basilica di San Marco, the Palazzo Ducale, and the Grand Canal.

Author : Cara Black
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 164129258X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Hours in Paris written by Cara Black and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life—all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this masterful, pulse-pounding story about one young woman with the temerity—and drive—to take on Hitler himself. *Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.

Author : Fabrice Moireau
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814260436
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome Sketchbook written by Fabrice Moireau and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Rome there is no guide, only one's curiosity about places, monuments and sculptures, as unveiled in this collection of watercolours by Fabrice Moireau. According to Dominique Fernandez, "one must leave it to chance and wander aimlessly", because pleasure "is found where least expected". With only their quill and brush, the author and illustrator capture the different faces of Rome-Ancient Rome, Imperial Rome, rome of the Baroque, as well as modern Rome -- and invite us to discover the masterpieces of this "eternal city"."--P [4] of cover

Author : Matthew Rice
Publisher : Particular Books
ISBN 13 : 9780241464830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice written by Matthew Rice and published by Particular Books. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the wonders of Venice, conveyed by means of an artist's sketchbook Matthew Rice is a long-time observer and illustrator of cities, buildings and all those who inhabit them, with an uncanny ability to express the energy of a place through a few lines of ink and splashes of paint. For years, Venice has been a source of deep creative inspiration for him; and now, in Venice: A Sketchbook Guide, he captures the highlights of this most beguiling of Italian cities. Unsurprisingly, given his abiding passion for architecture, Matthew provides a wealth of information about the 'stones' of Venice, including an illustrated guide to the main building styles of the city - Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Modern - and exemplars of its balconies, bridges and campaniles. Further sections explore the city's sestieri - its six residential quarters - as well as its history, paintings, festivals, wildlife and, not least, its cicchetti and aperitivi. Following the same landscape format as Matthew's real-life sketchbooks, Venice: A Sketchbook Guide will combine enchanting watercolour illustrations with an informed, personal and witty text, and promises to delight all visitors to Venice, armchair or actual.

Author : Huck Scarry
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780810939219
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Huck Scarry's Venice Sketchbook written by Huck Scarry and published by Harry N Abrams Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming book presents illustrator Huck Scarry's impressions, in watercolors, pencil sketches and journal entries, of a Venice most tourists never see. Scarry reveals the hidden charms and subtle moods of this ancient city in more than 120 full-color pages, filled with images ranging from detailed drawings of little-known piazzas and monochrome studies of Venetian cats to panoramic watercolor renderings of the Grand Canal. His illustrations and accompanying texts are a testament to Scarry's love affair with this endlessly fascinating city of water, wind, light, and shadow. With an acute and ironical eye and a light hand, Scarry studies Venice's unique angles, whims, and details: "Whenever I could, I would take my box of paints, my sketchbook, and my folding chair, and go painting through the streets of Venice and at the lagoon. The drawings filled my portfolio and became the beginning of my Venetian diary". His observations of moving and changing colors, atmospheres, and perspectives reflect the wonders of a stay in the city.

Author : Enrico Casarosa
Publisher : Adhouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9780981845500
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Venice Chronicles written by Enrico Casarosa and published by Adhouse Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist Enrico Casarosa chronicles his trip to Venice, Italy.

Author : Thomas Jonglez
Publisher : Editions Jonglez
ISBN 13 : 9782361952266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Venice written by Thomas Jonglez and published by Editions Jonglez. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years of research were needed to conceive this exceptional guide, which will allow all lovers of Venice and the Venetians themselves to start exploring the most extraordinary city in the world, away from the beaten path.

Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
ISBN 13 : 1609458516
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eyes of Venice written by Alessandro Barbero and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice at the end of the 1500s is an unforgiving city. The Doge rules with an iron fist and the Holy Office harbors suspicions about everything and everyone. Even the walls have eyes. The Republic of Venice watches and listens, then passes judgment swiftly and definitively. In a city where everyone is assumed guilty of something, a young stonemason by the name of Michele has been accused of a crime he didn't commit. Afraid for his life, he flees the city aboard a galley carrying gold coin, leaving behind his young wife, Bianca. Banished from his home, Michele embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures as the ship he travels on stops in every port and on every island of the Mediterranean. In order to survive this once na;ve and immature boy must fast become a man, one possessed of cunning, courage and fortitude. Bianca remains alone in the cruel and treacherous Venice. She faces challenges that are, if anything, even more difficult than those of Michele, and will encounter all the terrors and mysteries that the labyrinthine city holds in its blind alleys and narrow passageways. And she, like Michele, will discover in herself a tenacious and indestructible will to survive. Land and sea, East and West, the arrogance of power and the indestructible pride of the poor and dispossessed. Two lives and one all embracing love. As richly imagined as Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle, The Eyes of Venice is a grand and gripping tale of love and adventure that will also appeal to fans of the historical novels of Umberto Eco and Susan Dunant.

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643589282
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Venice Sketchbook written by Rhys Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper . . . Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years.

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781542027120
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Venice Sketchbook written by Rhys Bowen and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inheriting her beloved great-aunt's sketchbook, a recently divorced woman uncovers mysteries about her great-aunt's star-crossed romance with a nobleman in World War II Venice.