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In the 17th century, the family expanded upon their large ] of ] design on Venice's Grand Canal by also building a second ] palace right next to it for the purpose of housing their ballroom.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.turismo.provincia.venezia.it/turismoambientale/cd_1/itinerari/Guggenheim/cabarbaro.html | title="Ca' Barbaro" (Italian) | accessdate=2008-11-14}}</ref> In the 17th century, the family expanded upon their large ] of ] design on Venice's Grand Canal by also building a second ] palace right next to it for the purpose of housing their ballroom.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.turismo.provincia.venezia.it/turismoambientale/cd_1/itinerari/Guggenheim/cabarbaro.html | title="Ca' Barbaro" (Italian) | accessdate=2008-11-14}}</ref>


The church of ] houses a chapel of the Barbaro family containing the Barbaro ancestral device, a red circle on a white field, granted in the 12th century after Admiral Marco Barbaro cut off the hand of a ] and used the bleeding stump to draw a circle onto a turban- which he flew as a pennant from his ]. <ref>''The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto'', Jonathan Buckley, Rough Guides, 2004, pg., ISBN 1843533022</ref> <ref>“The City of Falling Angels'', John Berendt, Penguin Books, 2006, pg.161 , ISBN 1594200580</ref>. The church of ] houses a chapel of the Barbaro family containing the Barbaro ancestral device, a red circle on a white field.<ref>''The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto'', Jonathan Buckley, Rough Guides, 2004, pg., ISBN 1843533022</ref> <ref>“The City of Falling Angels'', John Berendt, Penguin Books, 2006, pg.161 , ISBN 1594200580</ref>.


The Barbaro family ] supported the ] of the church of ], which primarily assisted citizens in time of plague, and the Scuola's Sala dell'Albergo functioned as the conference room for the members of the confraternity's Albergo. <ref> Astrid Zenkert, tintoretto in Der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble un Wirkung, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003. ISBN 3-8030-1918-4. </ref> The Barbaro family ] supported the ] of the church of ], which primarily assisted citizens in time of plague, and the Scuola's Sala dell'Albergo functioned as the conference room for the members of the confraternity's Albergo. <ref> Astrid Zenkert, tintoretto in Der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble un Wirkung, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003. ISBN 3-8030-1918-4. </ref>

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"The Glorification of the Barbaro Family" by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Barbaro family was a patrician Venetian family. Various members were church leaders, diplomats, patrons of the arts, military commanders, philosophers, scholars, and scientists.

Famous members included the brothers Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro, who were patrons of the architect Andrea Palladio and the painter Paolo Veronese.. The family built a country home at Maser – the famous Villa Barbaro designed by Palladio.

History

Barbaro family members acted as deans and professors of the University of Padua. Four were Patriarchs of Aquileia.

A Vincenzo Barbaro inherited the Palazzo Dario in 1494.

In the 17th century, the family expanded upon their large Palazzo Barbaro of Gothic design on Venice's Grand Canal by also building a second Baroque palace right next to it for the purpose of housing their ballroom.

The church of San Francesco della Vigna houses a chapel of the Barbaro family containing the Barbaro ancestral device, a red circle on a white field. .

The Barbaro family Albergo supported the Scuola Grande of the church of San Rocco, Venice, which primarily assisted citizens in time of plague, and the Scuola's Sala dell'Albergo functioned as the conference room for the members of the confraternity's Albergo.


References

  1. “The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt, Penguin Books, 2006, pg.150 , ISBN 1594200580
  2. Hobson, Anthony, "Villa Barbaro", in Great Houses of Europe, ed. Sacheverell Sitwell (London: Weidenfeld, 1961), pp. 89–97. ISBN 0-600-33843-6
  3. Hobson, p. 93.
  4. ""The Patriarchate of Aquileia"". Retrieved 2007-10-07.
  5. ""Ca' Barbaro" (Italian)". Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  6. The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto, Jonathan Buckley, Rough Guides, 2004, pg.165, ISBN 1843533022
  7. “The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt, Penguin Books, 2006, pg.161 , ISBN 1594200580
  8. Astrid Zenkert, tintoretto in Der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble un Wirkung, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003. ISBN 3-8030-1918-4.

Notable members

Notes

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