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.
EditorialLibrary of St. Mark in Venice. Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, signed: J. Bury et Jourdan del, J. Bury et Ribaut sc, Fig. 36, p. 183, Jourdan, J. (del.); Bury, Jean Baptiste Marie (del. et sc.); Ribaut (sc.), 1853, Jules Gailhabaud: Mon...
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.
EditorialUlpia Marciana, elder sister of Roman Emperor Trajan. Copperplate engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after a design by Giovanni Battista Cipriani from 108 Plates of Antique Gems, 1860. The gems were from the Duke of Marlborough's collection.
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.