The horses of St Mark's : a story of triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice
(2010)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Abrams, 2010
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781468303025 (electronic bk.) MWT12465580, 1468303023 (electronic bk.) 12465580
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Celebrated historian Charles Freeman, author of the 2009 surprise hit A.D. 381, explores the mysterious origin of the statues and their turbulent movements through Europe over the centuries: in Constantinople, at both its founding and sacking in the Fourth Crusade; in Venice, at both the height of its greatness and fall in 1797; in the Paris of Napoleon, and the revolutions of 1848; and back in Venice, the most romantic city in the world. In this remarkable new book, Freeman shows how the horses came to stand at the heart of European history time and time again
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