Venice and the Veneto

This volume provides an account of the art and architecture of Venice and the principal cities of the Venetian mainland empire in the Renaissance from 1450 to1600. Thematically organized it puts special emphasis on the relationship between art and the political social and religious institutions of the Venetian Republic. Major painters such as Bellini Titian Tintoretto and Veronese and of major architects such as Sansovino and Palladio are viewed in the context of the particular needs and ideologies of individual and institutional patrons. Moreover the distinctive character of Venice as an artistic center is complemented by the discussion of the art produced in the mainland cities of Padua Treviso Vicenza Verona Brescia and Bergamo all of which similarly used visual means to assert their own separate identities. An up-to-date account of the art of early modern Venice with specially commissioned essays by a team of internationally-known scholars is also included.