La Serenissima / Georges Duby La Serenissima / Georges Duby -- A people's paradise / Guy Lobrichon -- The gospel of color / Terisio Pignatti -- The seat of an empire -- 13th to 15th centuries / Daniel Russo -- The arsenale of the West -- 16th century / Michel Hochmann -- Response to decline -- A European culture in the 17th and 18th centuries / Adriana van de Lindt-Russo -- The dream that was Venice -- Late 18th to the early 20th century / Pierre Vaisse and Genevieve Nevejan -- Appendices -- The Doges of Venice -- From the late 12th century to 1797 -- The principal cycles of Venetian narrative painting -- 14th and 15th centuries -- Index of works illustrated -- Index of names A people's paradise / Guy Lobrichon The gospel of color / Terisio Pignatti The seat of an empire : 13th to 15th centuries / Daniel Russo The arsenale of the West : 16th century / Michel Hochmann Response to decline : a European culture in the 17th and 18th centuries / Adriana van de Lindt-Russo The dream that was Venice : end of the 18th to the early 20th century / Pierre Vaisse and Geneviève Nevejan. | 
