EditorialView from San Marco towards the Libreria Marciana. One of the Greek bronze horses, sculptures of the 3rd or 4th BCE, brought as booty from Constantinople in 1204.
EditorialDesign for a Window Opening, John La Farge, American, 18351910, Graphite and brown watercolor on paper, A single arched opening, with roundels in the spandrels and classical capitols, in the manner of the architecture of the Libreria Vecchia, in Venice...
EditorialView from San Marco towards the Libreria Marciana. One of the Greek bronze horses, sculptures of the 3rd or 4th BCE, brought as booty from Constantinople in 1204.
EditorialRaven picking at a dead body. From the MS " Beatus in Apocalipsin" composed around 784 by the abbot of San Martin in Liebano, Spain. The version in hand was illustrated by the monk Emeterio and a nun signed " En Depinctrix" between ...
EditorialVenice and the old campanile before its destruction by earthquake, from " Pregrinatio in Terram Sanctam", first printed in 1486. Breidenbach, Canonicus and Dean of Mainz, travelled to Palestine in 1484-1485. Coloured woodcut.
EditorialView from San Marco towards the Libreria Marciana. One of the Greek bronze horses, sculptures of the 3rd or 4th BCE, brought as booty from Constantinople in 1204.
EditorialElephant and an ivory carver. Detail of the MS Cynegetica II, written by the Pseudo-Oppian. A gift of Cardinal Bessarione to the Libreria Marciana in 1468.
EditorialView from San Marco towards the Libreria Marciana. One of the Greek bronze horses, sculptures of the 3rd or 4th BCE, brought as booty from Constantinople in 1204.
EditorialView from San Marco towards the Libreria Marciana. One of the Greek bronze horses, sculptures of the 3rd or 4th BCE, brought as booty from Constantinople in 1204.
EditorialThe Arcade of the Libreria, Looking Toward San Giorgio Maggiore, 1712?93, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, 5 13/16 x 4 3/8in. (14.8 x 11.1cm), Drawings, Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venice 1712?1793 Venice).
EditorialView from San Marco towards the Libreria Marciana. One of the Greek bronze horses, sculptures of the 3rd or 4th BCE, brought as booty from Constantinople in 1204.
EditorialVenice and the old campanile before its destruction by earthquake, from " Pregrinatio in Terram Sanctam", first printed in 1486. Breidenbach, Canonicus and Dean of Mainz, travelled to Palestine in 1484-1485. Coloured woodcut.