Venices Mediterranean Colonies - Architecture and Urbanism (Art Ebook).pdf

Title: Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism
Author(s): Maria Georgopoulou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 383
ISBN: 0521184347, 052178235X, 9780521184342, 9780521782357
Size: 28 MB
Extension: pdf

This book examines the architecture and urbanism in the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia (modern Herakleion) as a case study, Maria Georgopoulou exposes the dynamic relationship that existed between colonizer and colony. Georgopoulou demonstrates how the Venetian colonists manipulated Crete's past history in order to support and legitimate colonial rule, particularly through the appropriation of older Byzantine traditions in civic and religious ceremonies.