Step Into History
Walk Venice in 1500
AI rebuilds Venezia (Venice) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
de' Barbari's Venice, 1500
This is Venice at the high Renaissance cusp, the maritime republic still wealthy from eastern trade and famed for painting, printing and spectacle. The walk moves from the lagoon into the heart of the city: customs and docks, the Doge's Palace and Piazza San Marco, the crowded Rialto markets and the narrow sestieri where painters, printers, mask-makers and shipwrights work and trade.
38 scenes — 23 streets, squares and views, 15 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Venice as it stood in 1500 (“History of the Republic of Venice”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Lido Shore Approach
- 2. Punta della Dogana
- 3. Riva degli Schiavoni
- 4. Piazzetta San Marco
- ↳ Procurators' Office · interior
- 5. Piazza San Marco
- ↳ Great Council Hall · interior
- 6. Torre dell'Orologio
- ↳ Clock Chamber · interior
- 7. Merceria Street
- ↳ Mask-makers' Workshop · interior
- 8. Campo San Bartolomeo
- ↳ Bookbinders' Workshop · interior
- 9. Ponte di Rialto
- ↳ Spice Counting House · interior
- 10. Fondaco dei Tedeschi
- ↳ Merchant Goods Hall · interior
- 11. Rialto Markets
- ↳ Fish Market Hall · interior
- 12. Aldine Press Front
- ↳ Aldine Press Workshop · interior
- 13. Ponte di San Polo
- 14. Campo San Polo
- ↳ Piano Nobile of a Palazzo · interior
- 15. Frari Exterior
- ↳ Frari Choir and Chapel · interior
- 16. Scuola di San Giorgio
- ↳ Confraternity Hall · interior
- 17. Campo Santa Maria Formosa
- ↳ Formosa Church Nave · interior
- 18. Campo San Zanipolo
- ↳ Basilica Nave and Sepulchres · interior
- 19. Arsenal Gate
- ↳ Arsenal Ship-shed (Tese) · interior
- 20. Zattere Quay
- 21. Campo Santo Stefano
- 22. Giudecca Canal View
- 23. Lido Panorama Finale