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Seminar Questions
- Why was Venice slower than other cities to embrace classicism in the visual arts?
- What motivated lay patrons of the visual arts in Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries?
- What factors shaped the development of humanism in Venice?
- How did printing change Venetian intellectual and literary culture?
Core Reading
You should each read all three of the following items:
- Chambers, David, and Brian Pullan (eds), Venice: A Documentary History 1450-1630 (Oxford, 1992; rept. Toronto, 2001), pp. 355-442.
- King, Margaret L., 'The Venetian Intellectual World', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797Link opens in a new window (Leiden, 2013), pp. 571-614. Brill e-book
- Wolters, Wolfgang, 'Art in Venice, 1400-1600', in in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797 (Leiden, 2013), pp. 779-864. Brill e-book
Recommended Further Reading
- Carroll, Linda L., 'Venetian Literature and Publishing', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797Link opens in a new window (Leiden, 2013), pp. 615-650. Brill e-book
- Howard, Deborah, 'Venetian Architecture', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797Link opens in a new window (Leiden, 2013), pp. 743-78. Brill e-book
- Infelise, Marco, 'Book Publishing and the Circulation of Information', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797Link opens in a new window (Leiden, 2013), pp. 651-674. Brill e-book
- Pincus, Debra, ‘Venice and the Two Romes: Byzantium and Rome as a Double Heritage in Venetian Cultural Politics’Link opens in a new window, Artibus et Historian 13 (1992), 101-14. JSTOR
Documents and Images
- Amman, Jost, The Procession of the Doge to the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, with a view of Venice, ca. 1547––50Link opens in a new window (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) [Zecca detailLink opens in a new window]
- Franco, Giacomo, Charlatans in Piazza San Marco, 1610 (Getty images)
- Sanudo, Marin, Venice, cità excelentissima: selections from the Renaissance diaries of Marin Sanudo, ed. and trans. Patricia H. Labalme and Laura Sanguineti White (Baltimore, 2008), pp. 427-84.
Indications for Further Reading
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