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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 ...
1263 – Venetian victory against the Genoese and Byzantines at the Battle of Settepozzi; 1264 – The Genoese capture a Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno. 1266 – Venetian victory against the Genoese at the Battle of Trapani; 1268 Lorenzo Tiepolo is elected Doge; A ten-year peace treaty with Byzantium grants Venice trading privileges.
Venetian victory, Venetian occupation of Tenedos and Lemnos: 1657, May 3: Cretan War: Lazzaro Mocenigo — Ottoman Algerian fleet: Venetian victory: 1657, May 18: Cretan War — Ottoman fleet: Venetian victory: 1657, July 17–19: off the Dardanelles Strait: Cretan War: Lazzaro Mocenigo: Knights of Malta, Papal States: Ottoman fleet under Topal ...
The Architectural History of Venice. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09029-1. Gerhard Rösch (2002). "The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian society, 1286-1323". In John Jeffries Martin; Dennis Romano (eds.). Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), one of the world's major painters, known for scenes from history and mythology; Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488), real name "Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni", painter, sculptor and goldsmith; Antonio Visentini (1688–1782), architectural designer, painter and engraver; Alessandro Vittoria (1525 ...
The Doge of Venice (/ d oʊ dʒ / DOHJ) [2] [a] was the doge or highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE). [3] The word Doge derives from the Latin Dux, meaning "leader," and Venetian Italian for “duke”, highest official of the republic of Venice for over 1,000 years. [4]
Venetian Arsenal towers. The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Venetian Republic's naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was ...
The Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century.