Venetian Art and Innovation in Venice

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In venice, you have these moments in which people are very excited to claim newness. And then as things get more and more dodgy for them, they start to claim oldness. There's a myth of a trojan foundinga there are new histories written that assert kind of romanness as well as and roman status. In so many of these examples, things are claiming old and new at the same i or pretending that the new thing is old, or pretending that an old thing is new. Ye, that's a major thing as when innovation will be made under the pretence of its being a restoration of something old, ora, that was there before.

David Perry is a freelance journalist covering politics, history, education, and disability rights. He was a professor of Medieval History at Dominican University from 2006-2017, and now works as an academic advisor in the history department of the University of Minnesota. His scholarly work focuses on Venice, the Crusades, and the Mediterranean World. Numerous topics covered include: Reasons to study history; how historical figures and institutions claimed legitimacy; calling an Age "Dark" or "Golden" in order to get legitimacy; patronage of the arts to prop up legitimacy; fake innovation and fake continuity; bastardy; parrots and coconuts in medieval Europe; and more! David Perry website David Perry Patreon "The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe" by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry