Palladio and the Water-oriented Scenography of Venice

Andrea Palladio’s Venetian churches of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore overlook the Bay of San Marco and its tributaries, the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal. In Palladio and the Water-oriented Scenography of Venice, Daniel Savoy examines the churches from their surrounding waterways, explaining them as centerpieces in an elaborate program of urban scenography that must be seen as a work of collective civic authorship. Through close topographical and contextual analysis, he shows that Palladio and his patrons oriented the churches to be seen from the perspective of the waterways approaching and transversing the city while evoking the visual experience and cosmological associations of theater. The scheme accords with Palladio’s theoretical project but also builds on Venetian conventions of aquatic urbanism and symbolic geography, implicating the architect in a centuries-old tradition in which the mythical image of Venice was projected through the city’s spectacular waterfront architecture.

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Le pietre di Ca’ Foscari: Ruskin e il Palazzo

Le lingue occidentali nei 150 anni di storia di Ca’ Foscari - I libri di Ca’ Foscari ◽

10.30687/978-88-6969-262-8/001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jeanne Clegg ◽

Emma Sdegno

Keyword(s):

Grand Canal ◽

History Of ◽

New Ideas ◽

The Grand Canal ◽

The University ◽

The City

Our contribution concerns a phase in the history of the building that gives the University its name. When Ruskin came to Venice in 1845 he was horrified by the decayed state of the palaces on the Grand Canal, and by the drastic restorations in progress. In recording their features in measurements, drawings and daguerreotypes, Ca’ Foscari took priority, and his studies of its traceries constitute a unique witness. This work also helped generate new ideas on the role of shadow in architectural aesthetic, and on the characteristics of Gothic, which were to bear fruit in The Seven Lamps and The Stones of Venice. In his late guide to the city, St Mark’s Rest, Ruskin addressed «the few travellers who still care for her monuments» and offered the Venetian Republic’s laws regulating commerce as a model for modern England. Whether or not he knew of the founding of a commercial studies institute at Ca’ Foscari in 1868, he would certainly have hoped that it would teach principles of fair and just trading, as well as of respectful tourism.

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The Return

The Venetian Bride ◽

10.1093/oso/9780192894571.003.0009 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 188-221

Author(s):

Patricia Fortini Brown

Keyword(s):

Grand Canal ◽

The Grand Canal ◽

The City ◽

Santa Maria

Back in Venice, Girolamo secures housing in Ca’ Morosini, a Gothic palace on the Grand Canal not far from Ca’ Bembo at Santa Maria Nova. Gian Matteo successfully defends himself from charges of improperly spending state funds in Candia and is allowed to stand for election again. His wife Marcella dies in August 1555, a few days after Giulia gives birth to a daughter named after her grandmother. It is a time of droughts and famine in the countryside, celebrations in Venice, and periodic outbreaks of plague throughout the territory. In early 1556, Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland, is feted throughout the territory. The following year the city celebrates the first coronation of a Dogaressa in a century, with more festivities. Two sons, Giovanni and Alvise III, are born to Giulia in 1556 and 1557. Bishop Michele becomes majordomo of the household of Pope Pius IV in Rome and reluctantly engages in papal politics.

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City vs. Town residents’ place attachment, perceptions and support for tourism development in a linear World Cultural Heritage Site

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0258365 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. e0258365

Author(s):

Wei Cao ◽

Wendong Yu ◽

Jinhai Xu

Keyword(s):

Local Governments ◽

Place Attachment ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Equation Model ◽

World Heritage Site ◽

Grand Canal ◽

Heritage Site ◽

The Grand Canal ◽

The City

This study examines local residents’ place attachment (PA) to the city or town they live and investigates how this attachment influences their perceptions and support for tourism development (ST), as well as comparing the differences of these relationships among the city and town residents in a linear World Heritage Site (WHS) setting. Structural equation model was used to analyze samples of 226 city residents and 235 town residents along the Grand Canal Yangzhou Section, China. The findings suggested that residents’ PA is positively correlated their ST. Results also suggested that the PA-ST effect is partially mediated by residents’ positive perceptions in the city area while fully mediated by residents’ positive and negative perceptions in the town areas. This study could help local governments make heritage development and management policies accordingly for cities and towns along the Grand Canal area.

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Course of the Grand Canal in the Mid-Ming China : Focusing on Tuxiang nanbei liangjing lucheng(图相南北两京路程)

Journal of Ming-Qing Historical Studies ◽

10.31329/jmhs.2003.10.19.135 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 135-176

Author(s):

Sung-Han Kim

Keyword(s):

Grand Canal ◽

The Grand Canal

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Rise and Fall of the Grand Canal in the Ancient Kaifeng City of China: Role of the Grand Canal and Water Supply in Urban and Regional Development

Water ◽

10.3390/w13141932 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 1932

Author(s):

Wenji Huang ◽

Mingwang Xi ◽

Shibao Lu ◽

Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

Keyword(s):

Song Dynasty ◽

The Political ◽

The South ◽

Central Plains ◽

Grand Canal ◽

The North ◽

Northern Song Dynasty ◽

Political Center ◽

Northern Song ◽

The Grand Canal

In the long history of the feudal society of China, Kaifeng played a vital role. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Kaifeng became a worldwide metropolis. The important reason was that the Grand Canal, which was excavated during the Sui Dynasty, became the main transportation artery for the political and military center of the north and the economic center of the south. Furthermore, Kaifeng was located at the center of the Grand Canal, which made it the capital of the later Northern Song Dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty was called “the canal-centered era.” The development of the canal caused a series of major changes in the society of the Northern Song Dynasty that were different from the previous ones, which directly led to the transportation revolution, and in turn, promoted the commercial revolution and the urbanization of Kaifeng. The development of commerce contributed to the agricultural and money revolutions. After the Northern Song Dynasty, the political center moved to the south. During the Yuan Dynasty, the excavation of the Grand Canal made it so that water transport did not have to pass through the Central Plains. The relocation of the political center and the change in the canal route made Kaifeng lose the value of connecting the north and south, resulting in the long-time fall of the Bianhe River. Kaifeng, which had prospered for more than 100 years, declined gradually, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, it became a common town in the Central Plains. In ancient China, the rise and fall of cities and regions were closely related to the canal, and the relationship between Kaifeng and the Grand Canal was typical. The history may provide some inspiration for the increasingly severe urban and regional sustainable development issues in contemporary times.

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