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Venice

Janice Anderson

出版	Colour Library Books, 1985
ISBN	09065580269780906558027
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cJRY1DbTVkMC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

In the north-west corner of the Adriatic, on a collection of small islands that were originally little more than mud-banks intersected by tidal channels, lies Venice. Once the refuge of victims of the barbarian invasion and the decline of the Roman Empire, its domes and pinnacles now rise unforgettably like a mirage from the shallow waters of the surrounding lagoon. The changing fortunes of history have left their mark on the architecture of the developing city . . . Italian, Arabic, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque styles all combine here; but all are inexplicably harmonized by the repeated motif of canal, street and bridge, and by the mysterious optical effects of light reflected in the water. The excellent colour photographs in this book capture something of the unique quality of a city which has for so long so strongly appealed to the imagination of the world.