Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• be aware of the art and culture of fifteenth-century Venice

• be aware of the nature of cultural exchange in Renaissance Europe

• understand how Venetian art challenges the canonical view of Renaissance art as a purely western European phenomenon

• start to develop skills in critical visual analysis based on the study of selected images of Renaissance art

• understand the geographical, political and commercial forces that set Venice at the centre of a broad network of trade and power relations and the complex ways these were reflected in Venetian art and architecture.