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The Grand Canal (Hardcover)
by Umberto Franzoi (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications (1 Jan 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0847824489
  • ISBN-13: 978-0847824489
  • Product Dimensions: 33.2 x 27.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,289,421 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars This sumptuous book will not fail to impress, 25 Nov 2007
By Nicholas Casley (Plymouth, Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grand Canal (Hardcover)
This is a book of great beauty and of great fascination. In essence, it is a photographic journey from the Dogana at the mouth of the southern end of the Grand Canal all the way to the Papadopoli Gardens at the northern end; and then a return trip from the railway station to the Doge's Palace. All photography (by Mark Smith) is in a strip form at right-angles to the canal. It is amazing, and must have taken a lot of (computer?) work to ensure the joins were ironed out, and (almost) all the people removed, and the sky was turned forever blue, which of course it always is in Venice.

The journey takes up 179 pages, thus allowing you to see all the buildings along both sides of the canal in some detail. The bottom quarter of each page has a running commentary on all the palazzi, casas, churches and bridges. Admittedly, most of this commentary is concerned with the architecture of what is on view, and once the author h