Layers of Venice
Architecture, Arts and Antiquities at Rialto
abstract
The book offers a greater understanding of the multiple layers of meaning that have been superimposed in the course of the Medieval and Modern Ages in the Rialto area. The authors follow the Leitmotiv of the memorial component that each operation of architectural reuse has carried in the history of the church of San Giacomo di Rialto, a building which stands, emblematically, as a sort of architectural relic. Adopting this principle, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the spatial model, the reuse of individual architectural and decorative elements but also, on a larger scale, the different configurations of the urban context (the Rialto market) through the centuries, after repeated destruction, reconstruction and transformation. By adopting this multi-scale approach, the book reveals the key role played by the church in the narrative strategy adopted to perpetually renew the myth of Venice, taking on a conceptual and polysemantic dimension where each component (object, context, meaning, function, image) constitutes an element cultural memory, with each leaving a tangible trace of its own.
Reuse of building materials • Early modern commercial institutions • Venetian Architecture • Rialto • Bridge of Rialto • Medieval architecture • Alessandro Vittoria • Venice • Acqua alta • Byzantine • Marbles • Medieval • Romanesque • Venetian Trade Guilds • San Giacomo di Rialto • Reused materials • Early Byzantine Capitals • Restoration • Andrea dall’Aquila • Venetian Republic • History of Venice • Banks • Giustizia • Stones • Vigilio Rubini • Spolia • Venetian early modern architecture • History of Architecture • Medieval town • Urban History • High Middle Ages • Greek cruciform • Church of San Giacomo at Rialto • Trading places • Basilica • Venetian Renaissance Sculpture • Lieu de mémoire • Early modern trade • Ancient Roman Capitals • Concieri