The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice

ISBN-13: 9781107165144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 202 str.

Dana E. Katz

Opis

This book explores how the Jewish ghetto engaged the sensory imagination of Venice in complex and contradictory ways to shape urban space and reshape Christian-Jewish relations.

Recenzje

'Katz's insistence on the verticality of the ghetto reminds us to evaluate the full significance of the three-dimensionality of the early modern built environment, which may be mentally flattened by factors such as our familiarity with early modern cartography. More broadly, this study highlights the importance, complexity and porosity of enclosure in the urban context. Above all, it prompts us to reflect on how architecture can frame and direct sensory experience, and how sensory experience shaped social relations.' Alexandra Bamji, Renaissance Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Margins as laboratories of urban planning; 2. Enclosures as topographies of vision; 3. Windows as sites of visual disturbance; 4. Walls as boundaries of the night; Conclusion.