Title: Piazza San Marco
Description: 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 Europes drawing room, as a painters 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.--from publisher description.
Subjects: Architecture and society, Buildings, structures, Architecture, History, Architecture, italy, Basilica di san marco (venice, italy), Venice (italy), description and travel