Venise et le goût du beau. Le Mécène et l'Architecte de la Renaissance à la Fenice. Afrique du Nord In the lands of the

In the lands of the Orient

“Life in the four corners of the world” collection

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Venise et le goût du beau. Le Mécène et l'Architecte de la Renaissance à la Fenice. Afrique du Nord In the lands of theVenice historian Jean Claude Hocquet, author of numerous works on the Serenissima, takes a new look at the city and its history, which he approaches through the prism of art history and the social history of the relationships between noble or wealthy bourgeois patrons and creators. The palaces show how wealth passed from the hands of the old nobility, enriched by distant trade, to those of an industrious bourgeoisie who dreamed of imitating their