Venice: Piazza San Marco

Venice: Piazza San Marco

Venice (Italy)--In Art | Venice (Italy)--Pictorial Works | Piazza San Marco (Venice"," Italy)--In Art | Piazza San Marco (Venice"," Italy)--Pictorial Works | Artists' Books--Massachusetts--Specimens

This series of books grew from the artitst's love of travel and passion for the old travel guides filled with notations"," reciepts and ephemera from past travelers. Fifth in a series that celebrates her favorite views"," this book is a view of the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Other books include Florence and Paris as well as Fenway Park"," and Boston Harbor. Peering through Venetian Gothic windows"," we see Basilica di San Marco"," the Campanile"," Clocktower"," and a glimpse of Procuratie Vecchie set against an old map.

Inscription: Signed by artist in pencil on back and numbered. | Colophon reads: This is the fifth in an ongoing series of tunnel books depicting my favorite views.

Edition Size: 500

Davidson, Laura

Self-published

Boston"," MA

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Materials/Printing: offset.

Structure/Folds: accordion folds, tunnel book, 5 panels. Issued in an envelope, with a hand-painted, offset-printed "stamp" of Venice pasted onto the upper right corner.

Dimensions: 13 x 18 x 12 cm (open)

artists' books (books)

Twenty-first century (dates CE)

2010

The original object was photographed with a NIKON D300 digital camera at 300 ppi as a JPEG file format. The JPEG file was then modified in Adobe Photoshop.

Photographer Marie A. Andrews

4 total views: front view, back view, overhead view