Cradles in the Portego
Nicholas Penny: Renaissance Venice, 5 January 2006
The New Palaces of Medieval Venice
by Juergen Schulz.
Pennsylvania State, 368 pp., £61.50, July 2004,0 271 02351 1 Show More
by Juergen Schulz.
Pennsylvania State, 368 pp., £61.50, July 2004,
Private Lives in Renaissance Venice
by Patricia Fortini Brown.
Yale, 312 pp., £35, October 2004,0 300 10236 4 Show More
by Patricia Fortini Brown.
Yale, 312 pp., £35, October 2004,
“... elsewhere in Europe; there are similar myths about the origins of the Venetians themselves. Juergen Schulz, unhappy with the evidence adduced by proponents of these theories and struck by the absence of research on many aspects of the subject, decided to focus on five of the oldest palaces in the city (only three of which survive) and to trace ... ”