Reference text produced in conjunction with the Venice Biennale, 1968. A historical and critical examination of the Venice Biennale, beginning with its birth in 1895 ; the first work of its kind to be produced in English. Prize winners include Francesco Paolo Michetti, Alessandro Milesi, Emilio Marsili, Anders Zorn, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Luigi Selvatico, Domencio Trentacoste, Telemaco Signorini, Luigi Nono, Emile Claus, Gaston La Touche, Franz von Lenbach, Herman Anglada-Camarasa, Károly Ferenczy, Philip Laszlo, Jozef Israels, John Singer Sargent, Hans von Bartels, Adolfo de Karolis, Giuseppe Biase, Giuseppe Zanetti, Albin Egger-Lienz, Max Liebermann, Primo Conti, Armando Spadini, Fioravente Seibezzi, Michele Guerrisi, Arnaldo Carpanetti, Amerigo Canegrati, Gherardo Dottori, Alfio Paolo Graziani, Tommaso Cascella, Contardo Barbieri, Manlio Giarrizzo, Giovanni Barbisan, Ezio Buscio, Ignazio Zuloaga, Felice Casorati, Guglielmo Aba-Novák, Artur Kampf, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Marino Marini, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Jacques Villon, Lynn Chadwick, Osvaldo Licini, Mark Tobey, Jean Fautrier, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Rauschenberg, and Julio Le Parc, with mentions made of many other artists. Features 95 images, including reproductions of all the Biennale grand prize winners from 1895 - 1968, as well as historical photographs. List of illustrations, bibliography, and index included.