Religious Architecture and Art in Venice in the Age of the Serenissima Republic: readings
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Paola Modesti, Venice International University
Giulio Lorenzetti, Venice and its lagoon: historical-artistic guide, Trieste 1999, is still recommendable as a guide-book to the city, while Gherardo Ortalli and Giovanni Scarabello, A Short History of Venice, Ospedaletto (Pisa) 1999, is a useful and handy introduction to its history. Reference bibliography
Primary sources
David Chambers and Brian Pullan, Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630, Oxford 1992. Venetian History and Society
David S. Chambers, The Imperial Age of Venice, London 1970. Frederic C. Lane, Venice: A Maritime Republic, Baltimore, 1973. Edward Muir, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1981. Dennis Romano, Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State, Baltimore and London 1987. Venetian Art and Architecture
Otto Demus, The Church of San Marco in Venice: history, architecture, sculpture, Washington 1960.
Otto Demus, The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1984. Rona Goffen, Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans, New Haven and London 1986. Manfredo Tafuri, Venice and the Renaissance, Cambridge Mass. and London 1989. Norbert Huse, and Wolfgang Wolters, The Art of Renaissance Venice. Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, 1460-1590, Chicago and London 1990. Peter Humfrey, The Altarpiece of Renaissance Venice, New Haven and London 1993. Humfrey, Peter, Altarpieces and altar dedications in Counter-Reformation Venice and the Veneto, in “Renaissance studies”, 10, 3, 1996, pp. 371-387. David Rosand, Painting in Cinquecento Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, [first printed New Haven and London 1982] Cambridge, New York, Melbourne 1997. Ennio Concina, A History of Venetian Architecture, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne 1998. Hopkins, Andrew, The influence of Ducal ceremony on church design in Venice, in “Architectural History. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain”, 41, 1998, pp. 30-48. Debra Pincus, The Tombs of the Doges of Venice, Cambridge and New York, 2000. Andrew Hopkins, Santa Maria della Salute. Architecture and Ceremony in Baroque Venice, Cambridge 2000. Wolfgang Wolters, Architektur und Ornament: venezianischer Bauschmuck der Renaissance, München 2000, esp. the chapter “Die Ausstattung Venezianischer Kirchen”, pp. 176-201 (a translation into English will be available). David Rosand, Myths of Venice. The Figuration of a State, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London 2001. Deborah Howard, The Architectural History of Venice, revised and enlarged edition, New Haven and London 2002. 
