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The New Palaces of Medieval Venice by Juergen Schulz

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By Juergen Schulz

The palaces of Venice have lengthy excited the beauty of tourists. Ornate and grand, the constructions appear to go with the flow at the water of the city's canals just like the sea castles in a mariner s dream. yet Juergen Schulz demonstrates that the origins of those apartments lay on terra firma, in a broadly disseminated construction variety that, through the 12th and 13th centuries, was once tailored to the specific situations of an Adriatic lagoon and the wishes of the retailers turning this surroundings right into a heart of exchange. An the world over well-known specialist on Venetian artwork, structure, and cartography, Schulz examines the city's medieval palaces with scholarship of remarkable breadth and perception. dependent in either archival examine and first-hand wisdom of Venice, his publication reconstructs the unique visual appeal of the city's oldest surviving apartments, akin to that of the nook and Pesaro households, and lines the numerous later differences made to those constructions. additional, Schulz's booklet breaks new floor by way of featuring a scientific dialogue of using sculpture in Venice's early palaces, famed for his or her 'exhibitionistic' scale and decoration. Illustrated with various images and plans, the recent Palaces of Medieval Venice presents a finished account of the ways that a gaggle of structures got here to embrace the lives of Venice's top mercantile households. Schulz's dialogue of the Venetian palaces' impression on later structure extra complements the importance of this good-looking book.

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Miller, Bishop’s Palace, has abandoned the unconvincing position she had adopted in an earlier article [“Episcopal to Communal”], namely, that communal palaces preceded, and provided the model for, episcopal palaces. It was a thesis that failed to take into account the early dates at which episcopal palaces are recorded in the north; cf. Streich, Burg und Kirche, esp. ) . Two such buildings, one datable to before , have been identified in Gorlago and Castelli Calepio, in the val Calepio between Bergamo and the lago d’Iseo.

Half floors between principal floors are termed mezzanines, and the floor beneath the eaves an attic. This system has the virtue of agreeing with the style of the documents, which call the ground floor pes planus (pepian in Venetian), and the residential floor solarium or, if more than one, solarium primum and solarium secundum (solaro or soler; primo- or secondo solaro/soler). Mezzanine and attic are called mezatum (mezado or mezà) and soffitta. Venetian documents may also distinguish a ground and an upper floor simply by calling them inferius and superius.

On the first floor, a continuous bank of windows continued to express the front face of the building’s main room, whether a diminished hall or the forward end of a hallway, but one or two single windows now appeared left and right, lighting the new corner chambers. Framed by walls on all four sides, corner chambers were capable, furthermore, of supporting low corner towers at the roof line, which allowed the truly vain to crown a residence with a seigneurial accent. . If the latter is the case, small wooden stairs connect the two sets of rooms.

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