This large-scale work provides the reader with a comprehensive insight into the history of Venetian art, as expressed throught its architecture, sculpture, and painting. Respected scholars in the field chronologically describe and analyze the broad panorama of the art of Venice. This generously illustrated volume presents the broad range of artistic production which is largely still in existence today in the island city and the veneto region on the mainland. Thus the reader is guided through the impressive "open-air museum" where the eventful artistic development of this extraordinary and unique place is preserved.