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Venice
Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements of the Bellini brothers, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese are a key part of this story. Nowhere else has been depicted by so many great painters in so many diverse styles and moods. Venetian views were a speciality of native artists such as Canaletto and Guardi, but the city has also been represented by outsiders: J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Howard Hodgkin, and many more.Then there are those who came to look at and write about art. The reactions of Henry James, George Eliot, Richard Wagner and others enrich this tale. N...
Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797
From 828, when Venetian merchants carried home from Alexandria the stolen relics of St. Mark, to the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in 1797, the visual arts in Venice were dramatically influenced by Islamic art. Because of its strategic location on the Mediterranean, Venice had long imported objects from the Near East through channels of trade, and it flourished during this particular period as a commercial, political, and diplomatic hub. This monumental book examines Venice's rise as the "bazaar of Europe" and how and why the city absorbed artistic and cultural ideas that originated in the Islamic world. Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797 features a wide range of fascinatin...
Bazaar to Piazza
From Italian textiles featuring Islamic and Asian motifs to ceramics and glassware that reflected Syrian techniques and ornamental concepts, this book gives an extraordinary view of the influence of imported Oriental goods in Italy over three crucial centuries of artistic development, from 1300 to 1600.".
Venice
Following Venice's unique history from its foundation, this book analyzes the city's social, cultural, religious, and environmental history, as well as its politics and economy. Joanne M. Ferraro illuminates how Venice's position at the crossroads of Asian, European, and North African exchange networks made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean cultural center.
The Brockway Family
Wolston Brockway (ca.1638-1717) emigrated during or before 1659 from England to Saybrook (later Lyme), Connecticut, and married twice. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and elsewhere.
Necrological Report
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Spalding Memorial
Edward Spalding (fl.1630/1633-1669) emigrated about 1630/1633 from England to Braintree, Massachusetts, and married twice, moving later to Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsi, Minnesota and elsewher. Some descendants immigrated to Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada. Some details are given about other Spalding immigrants to Maryland and Georgia.
