In July 1902, the famous bell-tower of St Mark, the city's totemic symbol, collapsed into a pile of rubble, crushing Sansovino's sixteenth-century Loggetta beneath it and narrowly missing the slender columns of the Basilica. News of the disaster flashed round the world, and the shock and distress felt by Venetians at the sudden loss of their landmark bell=tower was intense. After an immediately decision by the town council to rebuild, the work of recovery, planning and rebuilding took ten years. The story is told in this illustrated lecture.
Views: 476 | Enquiries: 0I have worked between Venice and London for many years to create an extensive photographic archive of Venetian architecture, sculpture and daily life, which is used by publishers and scholars worldwide. My book 'Ruskin's Venice: the Stones Revisited' was published in 2000, followed by a new edition in 2015, which has recently been translated into Italian. During the 1980s, I worked in the British film industry as a stills photographer, working on feature films which included: 'Wagner' (1983); 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1984); 'A Room with a View' (1985); 'White Mischief' (1987); and 'The Orchid House' (1989). My photographs have been exhibited in Venice and in the UK. I give regular lectures in the UK and in Italy, principally on Venetian subjects, and am a trustee of the Venice in Peril Fund, the British committee for the preservation of Venice.
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