- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- Format: Hardcover
- Category: Art - History - Renaissance
- Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
- Trim Size: 9-4/9 x 12-1/5
- Pages: 364
- US Price: $135.00
- CDN Price: $180.00
- ISBN: 978-0-8478-9929-6
"If you want to understand the great serenity of La Serenissima, look no further than its succession of doges. Through its stable leadership, Venice’s ducal republic endured for over a thousand years, even influencing America’s founding, until its destruction by Napoleon in 1797. Venice and the Doges: Six Hundred Years of Architecture, Monuments, and Sculpture, a lavish new book from Rizzoli Electa, looks to the history of the 120 doges through their surviving funerary monuments. Written by Toto Bergamo Rossi, the director of the Venetian Heritage Foundation, with photographs by Matteo de Fina, the book reveals such highlights as Pietro Mocenigo’s monument in the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1476) and the Contarini tomb in the Church of San Francesco della Vigna (1624/84). Taken together, the book’s elegant memorials speak to the life, and lives, of the Venetian Republic." —The New Criterion
Author Bookshelf: Diane von Furstenberg
Author Bookshelf: Peter Marino