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2 The capture of Constantinople in 1204, by Jacopo Tintoretto

3 Detail from ‘The Meeting of Etherius and Ursula and the Departure of the Pilgrims’, St. Ursula Cycle, 1498, by Vittore Carpaccio

4 Detail from ‘The Ambassadors Return to the English Court’, St Ursula Cycle, c.1490–95, by Vittore Carpaccio

5 La Riva degli Schiavoni, the Senza and the departure of the doge in the Bucintoro, by Leandro Bassano (da Ponte)

6 Marco Polo setting out from Venice with his father and uncle for the court of Kublai Khan, from a fifteenth-century manuscript.

7 The gateway of the Arsenal

8 Carpenters building ships in the Venetian arsenal

9 Rovigno (Rovinj) on the Istrian peninsula of Croatia

10 The Venetian fortress of Modon (Methoni), southern Greece

11 The Venetian harbour fortress at Candia (Heraklion), Crete

12 The lion of St Mark, Famagusta, Cyprus

13 The reception of the Venetian ambassador in Damascus, from the School of Gentile Bellini

14 Woodcut of the battle of Zonchio, 1499

Illustrations in the plate section are reproduced by kind permission of the following: Roger Crowley (1, 7 and 12), Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy/The Bridgeman Art Library (2), Galleria dell’ Accademia, Venice, Italy/Cameraphoto Arte Venezia/The Bridgeman Art Library (3), akg-Cameraphoto (4), The Art Archive/Academia BB AA S Fernando Madrid/Collection Dagli Orti (5), IAM/akg/World History (6), The Art Archive/Private Collection/Gianni Dagli Orti (8), Igor Karasi/Shutterstock Images (9), Andreas G. Karelias/Shutterstock Images (10), John Copland/Shutterstock Images (11), akg-Erich Lessing (13), The Trustees of the British Museum (14)

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