The Art of the Deal: Renaissance Venice as Marketplace

Renaissance Venetians turned commerce and finance into an art form. With

a trading empire stretched across the Mediterranean and into the Black Sea,

they developed strategies and innovations that even today continue to shape

our financial world. This talk explores Venetian society in the context of its

search for profit, and the ways in which commercial agendas helped to drive

cultural developments in both art and architecture. Those agendas also