St Mark's Clocktower in Venice is attributed to Mauro Codussi on stylistic grounds, without documentary evidence. The wings are possibly by Gonella. The Venetian Senate commissioned the clock in 1493 and decided on the tower in 1495. The page has no infobox. It was built in 1496 to 1497, inaugurated on February 1, 1499, and the wings were completed by 1506.
The article calls the style early Renaissance. It uses bronze, gilded copper, marble, blue enamel, gold leaf and ultramarine. Gian Paolo and Gian Carlo Ranieri of Reggio Emilia made the clock, and the Moors figures were cast in 1494. The bell was cast in 1497. It gives no dimensions.
The French removed the Doge Barbarigo statue in 1797. Restoration ran from 1998 to 2006. The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia manages it. Tours in Italian, English and French must be booked in advance, and the stairs to the roof terrace are steep and narrow. The article gives no hours.
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