Myths of Venice

David Rosand, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University, is well known for his studies of Venetian art. His books in that field include Titian, Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, and The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian.

"[This book] helps us better understand just why this beguiling city has, for so many centuries, fascinated the world. ("Washington Post Book World")" "Rosand's "Myths of Venice" provide[s] expert guidance through the intricacies of this more private Venetian artistic symbolism, revealing its underlying sense much as a good map will reveal the basic rationality behind the city's complex web of islands, paths, and waterways. ("New York Review of Books")" "YThis book? helps us better understand just why this beguiling city has, for so many centuries, fascinated the world. ("Washington Post Book World")" "Rosand's "Myths of Venice" provideYs? expert guidance through the intricacies of this more private Venetian artistic symbolism, revealing its underlying sense much as a good map will reveal the basic rationality behind the city's complex web of islands, paths, and waterways. ("New York Review of Books")" "The scholarship in back of this deceptively straightforward presentation is what we have come to expect of Rosand as one of the leading scholars of Venetian Renaissance art. (Patricia Fortini Brown, Professor of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University) Highly recommended for public and academic libraries. ("Library Journal")