Originally published: L'histoire de Venise par la peinture. Paris : Citadelles & Mazenod, 2006. Includes slip cover. Includes indexes.
Contents:
La Serenissima / Georges Duby -- A people's paradise / Guy Lobrichon -- The gospel of color / Terisio Pignatti -- The seat of an empire : 13th to 15th centuries / Daniel Russo -- The arsenale of the West : 16th century / Michel Hochmann -- Response to decline : a European culture in the 17th and 18th centuries / Adriana van de Lindt-Russo -- The dream that was Venice : end of the 18th to the early 20th century / Pierre Vaisse and Geneviève Nevejan.
Summary:
An illustrated collection of scholarly essays that provides commentary on both the history of Venice and the bequest of paintings it left to the world.
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