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Item Number: 111481
Title: The House of Gold: Building a Palace in Medieval Venice
Author: Goy, Richard J
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780521181341
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2011. 26cm., pbk., 336pp. illus. Paperback reprint of 1993 edition. Contents: 1. The economic and political background ; 2. The city in 1400 ; 3. The medieval Venetian palace ; 4. The Contarini: a great patrician clan ; 5. Marin and his marriage ; 6. Antonio Contarini, an ambitious father ; 7. Contarini's business activities ; 8. A domestic interlude: family and servants 1426-1430 ; 9. The new palace at Santa Sofia: motives and methods ; 10. First impressions: the plan, structure and appearance of the palace ; 11. The building trade guilds ; 12. The men who built the palace: an introduction ; 13. Building contracts and procedures ; 14. The stonemasons' yards ; 15. Technology on site ; 16. Daily life on site ; 17. The building industry: money, wages and standards of living ; 18. Building the palace: first records 1421 ; 19. The appointment of Zane Bon ; 20. Carpenters on site 1425-1426 ; 21. The work of Matteo Raverti and his bottega 1425-1428 ; 23. The main façade: its design and appearance ; 24. Zane Bon and the main façade: the arcade to the quay ; 25. The work of Bon on the façade up to 1429 ; 26. Matteo Raverti and the façade: the lower loggia ; 27. The upper logia ; 28. Building the quay and assembling the façade I ; 29. Assembling the façade II: a locum master builder and a master blacksmith ; 30. Building the upper walls 1429-1430: maestro Cristofolo ; 31. The carpenters: the Rosso bottega 1428-1431 ; 32. The ancillary trades 1428-1430: terazer, fregador, pentor, intaiador ; 33. The final stages of building the palace: the last works of Bon ; 34. Antonio di Martini ; 35. The House of Gold: decorating the façade 1431-1433 ; 36. The last work of the stone masons: Rosso and Romanello after 1430 ; 37. the last works of builders, carpenter and glaziers ; 38. The completed palace: the image and the cost ; 39. Marin Conatarini: the final chapter ; 40. Postscript: Contarini's succession ; 41. Contarini's role ; 42. The legacy of the palace: its historical importance ; 43. The legacy of the Cà d'Oro in the later work of Bartolomeo Bon ; 44. The after-life on the palace.
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