Venice: Its History, Art, Industries and Modern Life

449 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles and decorations, red cloth dust jacket. Photographic plates. Fold-out map of Venice. Translated from the French by F.J. Sitwell. CONTENTS: Origin--Development--Fall of the Republic; The Archives of Venice in the Monastery of Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari; The Commerce of the Venetians--Their Navigation; The Arsenal of Venice; The Doge of Venice; The Art of Medal Engraving; Architecture--Its Successive Transformations; Architecture--The Renaissance Period; The Rialot; Venetian Sculpture--Sepulchral Monuments--Bronzes; The Lombardi Family--Pietro Lombardo; Alessandro Vittoria and Alessandro Leopardi; Painting--Origin and Rise of the Venetian School--Tiian; Painting--Tintoretto--Veronese--The Artists of the Decadence; Printing--The Literary Movement; Glass and Mosaics; Lace--Costume; The Approach to the City--The Grand Canal; St. Mark's Place--The Carnival--Types of the People; Churches--The Lido--The Isle San Lazzaro--The Armenians--Conclusion; Index.