The diversity of architectural style of the pallazzi, their Moorish window arches, Gothic Venetian loggias, austere Renaissance facades, the opulent baroque interior decoration of the preivate residantial palaces, the magnificent color of the Byzantine mosaics in the basilica of San Marco, the famous paintings of outstanding artists such as Giorgine, Titian, and Tiepolo; the reader is treated, in this definitive book, to a visual celebration of the unique wealth and vitality of Venetian art.Over 650 illustrations presents a wide panorama of architecture, sculpture and painting in the City on the Lagoon, wich have largely been preserved until the present day. The authors, well-known art historians from Europe and the United States, progress through the stages of Venetian art history chronologically from the 13th until the 18th century and document, with their informed text, the eventful artistic development of this extraordinary city.