The Arco Foscari : The Building of a Triumphal Gateway in Fifteenth Century Venice
New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #11250
ISBN: 0824020022
Library stamps/marks/labels, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Reprint of the author's thesis, New York University, 1974. Illustrated with 184 figures in 78 pages. "The purpose of this study is to examine in depth just what kind of public monument the Arco Foscari is - to determine when its major architectural outlines were set and what the reasons behind the building of such a structure may have been. The problems that the Arco presents are, however, sculptural as well as architectural in nature, for the monument contains a complement of 18 crowning figures and, in the niches of the ground floor story, an additional pair of figures which date from the late 15th century campaign. (Sculptural groups of the doge kneeling before the Lion of Saint Mark, originally to be seen on both the main and courtyard facades fo of the monument, are no longer present.) The existence of a complex ensemble of this kind raises the question of what narrative or symbolic message the sculpture was intended to convey, a question that is complicated in the case of the Arco by the bewildering variety of stylistic currents which the crowning sculpture in its present form displays." - Introduction. ; Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts; Ex-Library; xii, 574 pages.
Price: $59.95