Piazza San Marco

Core Reading

Chambers, David, and Brian Pullan (eds), Venice: A Documentary History 1450-1630 (Oxford, 1992; rept. Toronto, 2001), pp. 8-9, 390-91, 394-96, 398-99, 412-13.

Fenlon, Iain, Piazza San Marco (London, 2010)

Sansovino, Francesco, Sansovino's Venice: A Translation of Francesco Tatti da Sansovino's Guidebook to Venice of 1561, trans. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (London, 2017)

E-resources

Amman, Jost, The Procession of the Doge to the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, with a view of Venice, ca. 1547––50 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) [Zecca detail]

Bellini, Gentile, Procession of the Holy Cross in Piazza San Marco, 1496 (Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice) [Basilica detail]

Canaletto, View of Piazza San Marco towards the Church of San Geminiano, c. 1735 (Palazzo Corsini, Rome)