Introduction to the art and architecture of Venice through the patronage of the Cornaro family ...

Medieval and Renaissance Art, History, Literature and Music.

THE WONDER OF PIAZZA SAN MARCO Piazza S.Marco is the only true square in Venice (the others open areas are campi ). St.Mark's Square was called the drawing room of the world by Musset. It has been the scene of some of the most important religious and political activities of the Serenissima as well as the center of Venetian social life for almost a millennium. At first the Square was limited to ...

Biographical sketch of the innovative Renaissance architect, one of the outstanding architects in Venetian history ...