Catalog of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1983-1984.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-413) and index.
Venice and its empire / J.R. Hale -- Patronage in Venice / J.M. Fletcher -- Patronage on the Venetian mainland / Lionello Puppi -- Architecture / Howard Burns -- Altarpieces / Terisio Pignatti -- Portraits / Lino Moretti -- 'Poesie' and painted allegories / Charles Hope -- The historians of Venetian painting / Charles Hope -- Titian and Venetian colour / John Steer -- Conservation, restoration and new findings / Francesco Valcanover -- Venetian sixteenth-century painting -- the legacy / Francis Haskell -- Colour plates -- Catalogue of the paintings -- Drawing in Venice / James Byam Shaw -- Catalogue of the drawings -- Printmaking in Venice and the Veneto / David Landau -- Catalogue of the prints -- Sculpture / Bruce Boucher and Anthony Radcliffe -- Catalogue of the sculpture -- Catalogue of historical exhibits -- Venice: selective chronology 1500-1600 -- The Doges of Venice: 1473-1615