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| List of illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Glossary of terms | |
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| Sources and methodology | |
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| General introduction | |
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| Venice in the Early Quattrocento: | |
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| The economic and political background | |
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| The city in 1400 | |
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| The medieval Venetian palace | |
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| The Contarini Casada: | |
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| The Contarini: a great patrician clan | |
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| Marin and his marriage | |
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| Antonio Contarini, an ambitious father | |
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| Contarini's business activities | |
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| A domestic interlude: family and servants 1426-1430 | |
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| The new palace at Santa Sofia: motives and methods | |
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| First impressions: the plan, structure and appearance of the palace | |
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| Building in Medieval Venice: | |
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| The building trade guilds | |
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| The men who built the palace: an introduction | |
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| Building contracts and procedures | |
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| The stonemasons' yards | |
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| Technology on site | |
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| Daily life on site | |
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| The building industry: money, wages and standards of living | |
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| Building the Palace: The First Stage: | |
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| Building the palace: first records 1421 | |
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| The appointment of Zane Bon | |
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| two master masons | |
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| Carpenters on site 1425-1426 | |
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| The work of Matteo Raverti and his bottega 1425-1428 | |
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| The Front Fa�ade: | |
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| The main fa�ade: its design and appearance | |
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| Zane Bon and the main fa�ade: the arcade to the quay | |
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| The work of Bon on the fa�ade up to 1429 | |
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| Matteo Raverti and the fa�ade: the lower loggia | |
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| The upper logia | |
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| Building the quay and assembling the fa�ade I | |
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| Assembling the fa�ade II: a locum master builder and a master blacksmith | |
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| Completing the Fabric: | |
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| Building the upper walls 1429-1430: maestro Cristofolo | |
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| The carpenters: the Rosso bottega 1428-1431 | |
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| The ancillary trades 1428-1430: terazer, fregador, pentor, intaiador | |
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| The final stages of building the palace: the last works of Bon | |
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| Antonio di Martini | |
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| Finishing touches: | |
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| The House of Gold: decorating the fa�ade 1431-1433 | |
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| The last work of the stone masons: Rosso and Romanello after 1430 | |
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| the last works of builders, carpenter and glaziers | |
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| The completed palace: the image and the cost | |
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| Marin Conatarini: the final chapter | |
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| Postscript: Contarini's succession | |
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| Conclusion: | |
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| Contarini's role | |
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| The legacy of the palace: its historical importance | |
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| The legacy of the C� d'Oro in the later work of Bartolomeo Bon | |
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| The after-life on the palace | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Select bibliography | |
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| Index | |