Venice Revealed

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Call Number: DVD 945.31 Ve
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Based on the book "Venice: pure city" by Peter Ackroyd.
Special features include: 12-page viewer's guide ; biographies of Venetian architects, artists, playwrights, and composers ; Venice on film and exclusive we extras.
disc 1. The city as architecture ; The city as art -- disc 2. The city as music ; The city as theatre.
Presented by Peter Ackroyd.
"An in-depth tour of the art, architecture, music and theatre of Europe's most mysterious and seductive city." -- Container.
DVD; Dolby digital stereo; widescreen (16:9) presentation.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Bravo! Erudite Performances! submitted by vk on February 2, 2011, 10:00pm This two-DVD set is not for the casual viewer or the multi-tasker! In it, Peter Ackroyd, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, presides eloquently over a four-part 164-min. exposition of the (1)Architecture, (2)Art, (3)Music, and (4)Theatre of the most memorable city, Venice. Turn on the subtitles to read and appreciate the rich (and to me some new) words he uses to plumb the depths of the Venetian soul. My favorite sequence is the "new" Vivaldi revealed in Episode 3: The City as Music. Bravo!