The history of the Doge's palace in Venice begins in medieval times and continues with numerous extensions, renovations and demolitions aimed at adapting...
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The Doge's Palace (/doʊ(d)ʒɪzˈpælɪs/; Italian: Palazzo Ducale; Venetian: Pałaso Dogal) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main...
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The Doge of Venice (/doʊdʒ/ DOHJ) was the highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE). The word Doge derives from the...
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restricted by law (unlike the Doges of the Republic of Genoa) to spend the rest of their lives inside the Doge's Palace complex and St Mark's Basilica, occasionally...
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Piazza San Marco (redirect from Piazza San Marco, Venice)
of 194 cm or 6 ft 4 in. List of buildings and structures in Venice History of the Doge's Palace in Venice Margaret Plant has looked into the history of...
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Doge's Palace Bridge of Lies – another bridge with legends regarding its name List of buildings and structures in Venice History of the Doge's Palace...
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Leonardo Loredan (redirect from Doge Leonardo Loredan)
Paolo, Venice Medal featuring Doge Leonardo Loredan, by Vettor Gambello, 1508, British Museum, London History of the Doge's Palace in Venice Wikimedia...
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met in Venice in the Doge's Palace, the political center of the Republic. The Doge (from the Latin dux, or commander) was the head of state of the Republic...
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in the treaty of Campoformio, and Venice and all her possessions became Austrian. The accord was signed at Passariano, in the last doge's villa, on 18...
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Filippo Calendario (category Republic of Venice architects)
April 1355 in Venice, Italy) was an architect, a designer of the 14th century Doge's Palace, Venice. He was executed for treason. By the end of the 13th century...
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produced in Venice. From the 16th century, the coinage was made in the very prominently-located Zecca of Venice, close to the Doge's Palace. Although...
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Venetian Gothic architecture (category Culture of the Republic of Venice)
Venetian Renaissance architecture Italian Gothic architecture History of the Doge's Palace in Venice Mack, 12 Howard, 90 Burns, 24 Burns, 24 Howard, 31-34; Burns...
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made up of parts of antique statues and is a copy, the original being kept in the Doge's Palace. The Lion weighs approximately 3,000 kilograms. The book...
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St Mark's Basilica (redirect from Cathedral of Saint Mark, Venice)
on the eastern end of Saint Mark's Square, the former political and religious centre of the Republic of Venice, and is attached to the Doge's Palace. Prior...
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and Venice's eastern trading partners, and early Gothic forms from mainland Italy.[citation needed] Chief examples of the style are the Doge's Palace and...
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The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore (in French: Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur) is a 1908 painting by Claude Monet that resides...
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attested in 1141. That was a council established to limit and control the power of the Doge of Venice, and dominated by the Venetian nobility. The Great...
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in the republic were the Spinola, the Grimaldi, the Doria and the Durazzo, all these dynasties gave numerous doges to Genoa. While the doge's palace in...
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Le Palais Ducal (category Paintings of Venice by Claude Monet)
Venice in 1908. Monet painted the Doge's Palace from several viewpoints during his three-month sojourn in Venice, from October to December 1908. The title...
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short walk from the Doge's Palace. The present church was built from 1745-1760 adjacent to the site of an earlier church, and adjacent to the orphanage and...
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of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the...
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Palazzo Pisani Moretta (category Palaces on the Grand Canal (Venice))
Palazzo Pisani Moretta is a palace situated along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy (in the sestiere of San Polo), between Palazzo Tiepolo and Palazzo Barbarigo...
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Venetian Renaissance architecture (category 15th century in the Republic of Venice)
List of churches in Venice List of palaces in Venice List of buildings and structures in Venice History of the Republic of Venice History of the Doge's Palace...
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en Duo. During this Doge's rule, the palace underwent some reconstruction by Baroque architect, Mattia Carneri, of the School of Longhena, but retains...
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restoration. The Doge's Palace in St. Mark's Square was covered with 150 centimeters of sea water (194 centimeters when measured from the average sea level)...
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Venice, which is situated at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, was for hundreds of years the richest and most powerful centre of Europe, the reason being...
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ceremony the doge sailed for Lido on the bucintoro (the doge's ceremonial ship) with the top clergy, the top officials of the Republic of Venice and ambassadors...
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Pietro Gradenigo (category 13th-century Doges of Venice)
was the 49th Doge of Venice, reigning from 1289 to his death. When he was elected Doge, he was serving as the podestà of Capodistria in Istria. Venice suffered...
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his ex-voto for the Doge's Palace. In Venice it became the custom in the Renaissance for the higher officials, beginning with the Doge, to commission (at...
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