Art and Architecture in Renaissance Venice: readings
- Chambers, David S., The Imperial Age of Venice , London 1970.
- Concina, Ennio, A History of Venetian Architecture , Cambridge, New York, Melbourne 1998.
- Finlay, Robert, Politics in Renaissance Venice, New Brunswick 1980.
- Fortini Brown, Patricia, Venice and Antiquity. The Venetian Sense of the Past, New Haven- London 1997.
- Fortini Brown, Patricia, Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio, New Haven-London 1990.
- Goffen, Rona, Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans , New Haven and London 1986.
- Huse, Norbert and Wolters, Wolfgang, The Art of Renaissance Venice. Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, 1460-1590 , Chicago and London 1990.
- Howard, Deborah, The Architectural History of Venice , revised and enlarged edition, New Haven and London 2002.
- Humfrey, Peter, The Altarpiece of Renaissance Venice , New Haven and London 1993.
- Rosand, David, Painting in Cinquecento Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, [first printed New Haven and London 1982] Cambridge, New York, Melbourne 1997.
- Rosand, David, Myths of Venice. The Figuration of a State, Chapel Hill and London 2001.
- Tafuri, Manfredo, Venice and the Renaissance, Cambridge Mass. and London 1989.
- Brown, P.F., ‘Honour and necessity: the dynamics of patronage, in the confraternities of Venice’, Studi veneziani, n.s.,14 (1987)
- Fortini Brown,Patricia, Art and Life in Renaissance Venice, New York-London 1997 is recommended as preliminary reading.