HISC65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wedding Music, Morean War, Avail
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: 1630"s to 18th cent. (1797 - w/ nap. Giovanni grevembroch - plague doctor conquest, v. ends; 1848-49 republic of st. marco declared but didn"t last) deep crisis in econ. , politics, military, etc; time when v. decline became a trope. From a city that was already shrinking (170, 000 was pop. at its height) *demographic decline since late 16th century where plague contributed to it. 1714-18: morean war - resulted in loss of last major colony in. Efforts in v. to mark through pub. display cert. kinds of piety to regain confidence of the people and that divine providence did not disappear. *turning of v. into object that can be consumed not imposed from outside/not that foreigners created but v. were active and willing participants. Shaped his career around cityscape chose specific landscape views of most popular parts of v. in large canvases that were bought by visitors (partic.
