Dorothy Menpes: 3 books

This edition features • illustrations • a linked List of Illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Arrival and First Impressions History A Glimpse into Bohemia Architecture St. Mark's Painters of the Renaissance Streets, Shops, and Courtyards The Islands of the Lagoon Social Ups and Downs Gondolas and Gondoliers

There is no city more written about, more painted, and more misrepresented, than Venice. Students, poets, and painters have combined in reproducing her many charms. Usually, however, Venice is described in a hurried, careless way: the subject is seldom gone deeply into, and studied as it should be, before...

ART AND THE DRAMA I always agree with that man who said, “Let me make the nation’s songs and I care not who frames her laws,” or words to that effect, for, in my opinion, nothing so well indicates national character or so keenly accentuates the difference between individuals and nations as the...