Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance | Venice - Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance (Lecture 27)

Lecture 27: The first of eight lectures on Venice surveys its setting and history. At the core of the city are the ducal palace and Basilica of San Marco, adorned with bronze horses and the enamel plaques for the Pala d'Oro, plunder from the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade.