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Compared to the Renaissance architecture of other Italian cities, in Venice there was a degree of conservatism, especially in retaining the overall form of buildings, which in the city were usually replacements on a confined site, and in windows, where arched or round tops, sometimes with a classicized version of the tracery of Venetian Gothic architecture, remained far more heavily used than ...
Jacopo de' Barbari's woodcut, the View of Venice, 1500 Venice in the late 17th and early 18th centuries The Grand Canal in Venice, c. 1730. 421 CE. Traditional date for founding of Venice, with consecration of San Giacomo di Rialto. [1] First mention of Poveglia. 452 – "Consular government adopted." [1] 697 – Paolo Lucio Anafesto becomes ...
It remained the cathedral of Venice for a thousand years, until the City was occupied by Napoleon at the end of the eighteenth century. Doge Maurizio Galbaio appoints his sixteen-year-old nephew Christopher bishop of Olivolo , but when the Patriarch of Grado refuses to consecrate him a flotilla of ships is sent to attack Grado , and there the ...
Venetian Renaissance architecture began rather later than in Florence, not really before the 1480s, [1] and throughout the period mostly relied on architects imported from elsewhere in Italy. The city was very rich during the period, and prone to fires, so there was a large amount of building going on most of the time, and at least the facades ...
By far the most famous composer of church music in 16th-century Italy was Palestrina, the most prominent member of the Roman School, whose style of smooth, emotionally cool polyphony was to become the defining sound of the late 16th century, at least for generations of 19th- and 20th-century musicologists.
The original medieval building was built at the confluence of the canals of San Severo and Santa Maria Formosa, and purchased later by Antonio Grimani, who became a doge in 1521, and subsequently passed on as a legacy, in the third decade of the 16th century, to the grandsons Vettore Grimani, Procurator de Supra for the Venetian Republic, and ...
Several popes have hailed from Venice — in the past century alone three pontiffs were elected after being Venice patriarchs. Venice hosted the last conclave held outside the Vatican: the 1799 ...
The Feast in the House of Levi or Christ in the House of Levi is a 1573 oil painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century, measuring 555 cm × 1,309 cm (18.21 ft × 42.95 ft). [1] It is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice.