![]() | Piazza San Marco Subjects: Piazza San Marco (Venice Italy) -- History; Architecture -- Italy -- Venice -- History; Architecture and society -- Italy -- Venice -- History; Venice (Italy) -- Buildings structures etc.; The Piazza San Marco, one of the most famous and instantly recognizable townscapes in the West, if not the world, has been described as a stage set, as Europe's drawing room, as a painter's canvas. This book traces the changing shape and function of the piazza, from its beginnings in the ninth century to its present day ubiquity in the Venetian, European, as well as global imagination. |
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