David Rosand, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University, is well known for his studies of Venetian art. His books in that field include Titian: Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto: and The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian.
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"[This book] helps us better understand just why this beguiling
city has, for so many centuries, fascinated the world. ("Washington
Post Book World")"
"Rosand's "Myths of Venice" provide[s] expert guidance through the
intricacies of this more private Venetian artistic symbolism,
revealing its underlying sense much as a good map will reveal the
basic rationality behind the city's complex web of islands, paths,
and waterways. ("New York Review of Books")"
"The scholarship in back of this deceptively straightforward
presentation is what we have come to expect of Rosand as one of the
leading scholars of Venetian Renaissance art. (Patricia Fortini
Brown, Professor of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University)
Highly recommended for public and academic libraries. ("Library
Journal")
"Rosand's "Myths of Venice provide[s] expert guidance through the
intricacies of this more private Venetian artistic symbolism,
revealing its underlying sense much as a good map will reveal the
basic rationality behind the city's complex web of islands, paths,
and waterways. ("New York Review of Books)"
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