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  • Histoire de Venise Par La Peinture

    430.00

    Author: Georges Duby, Guy Lobrichon, Collectif

    Publisher: Citadelles & Mazenod

    Year: 2006

    ISBN: 978 2850882326

    Binding: Hard Cover

    Condition: Very good condition. The book is in a very good condition slipcase. A slight stain on the front cover of the book, few minor hardly noticable scratches.

    Dust Jacket condition: No Jacket

    Language: French

    Page Count: 495

    Details: Venise raconte désormais son histoire dans une galerie d’images vivantes qu’ont fixées les plus grands artistes qu’elle a inspirés. Des centaines de tableaux, de dessins et de manuscrits à peinture, reproduits avec leurs détails principaux dans un format exceptionnel, composent ce musée imaginaire dont elle est à la fois l’auteur et l’acteur principal.

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  • Rousseau’s Venetian Story: An Essay Upon Art and Truth in Les Confessions

    20.00

    Author: Madeleine B. Ellis

    Publisher: Johns Hopkins

    Year: 1996

    ISBN: Not applicable

    Binding: Hard Cover

    Condition: Very Good, slight foxing to the side of the pages. No markings or highlighting. Text is clear and visible.

    Dust Jacket condition: Dust Jacket. Clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, bookplates, DJ tears etc. Price is unclipped.

    Language: English

    Page Count: 199

    Details: First edition

    Synopsis: This book contains of a literary study of Rousseau’s account of his diplomatic experiences in Venice, contained in Book VII of the Confessions ad written in 1970. The methos udes in this study is a collation of the text of the confessions with contemporary correspondence and othe documentation to show how discrepancies between the 2 have artistic implications.

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