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| O. Demus
and H. Kessler, The
Mosaic Decoration of S. Marco,
London, 1988 |
| Christopher
Hibbert: Venice:
The Biography of a City, 1990 |
| P. Hills,
Venetian
Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting, Glass: 1250-1550,
Yale, 1999 |
Hugh Honour,
The
Companion Guide to Venice, HarperCollins,
1991
(A good general
guide book to Venice's artistic treasures) |
| C. Hope and
J. Martineau, The
Genius of Venice, Royal Academy exhibition
cat, 1983 |
| C. Hope, Titian,
National Gallery, 2003 |
| Jan Morris:
Venice,
1974 |
| Jan Morris:
Venetian
Empire: A Sea Voyage, 1990 |
| John Julius
Norwich, Venice:
The Rise to Empire, 1977 |
| John Ruskin:
Stones
of Venice, 1851 |
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J. Steer, Venetian
Painting: A Concise History, T&H,
World of Art Series, 1970
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| D. Talbot
Rice: The
Art of the Byzantine Era, T&H, World
of Art Series, 1963 |
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Michael Dibdin:
Dead
Lagoon, 1994
(Aurelio Zen,
Dibdin's misanthropic detective, returns to
the city of his childhood and finds himself
embroiled in unpleasant goings on) |
Daphne Du
Maurier: Don't Look Now (book
| film)
(A short story
made into a creepy cult film with Julie Christie
and Donald Sutherland; likely to put anyone
off from visiting Venice at all, but especially
in the winter) |
| Henry James:
The
Aspern Papers, 1888 |
Henry James:
The
Wings of the Dove, 1902
(Also a decent
film
with Helena Bonham Carter) |
Donna
Leon: many titles from Death
at La Fenice (1992) to Blood
from a Stone (2005)
(Series of detective
stories set in Venice; weather often bad) |
Thomas Mann:
Death
in Venice, 1912
(Famous film
by Visconti,
with Dirk Bogarde breaking down to music by
Mahler) |
Barry Unsworth:
Stone
Virgin, 1986
(A statue causes
strange goings-on over the ages) |
Salley Vickers:
Miss
Garnet's Angel, 2001
(Retired teacher
Miss Garnet goes to live in Venice) |
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