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The portrait depicts the doge Giovanni Mocenigo, wearing the official clothes of his office: the doge's Corno ducale and the gold cloth embroidered in relief. The doge is represented in profile and stands out against a gold background, which has a strong symbolic value that underlines the customs and iconographic tangencies between Venice and the Byzantine artistic world of Constantinople.
The Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan (Italian: Ritratto del doge Leonardo Loredan) is a painting by Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, dating from c. 1501–02. It portrays Leonardo Loredan , the Doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, in his ceremonial garments with the corno ducale worn over a linen cap, and is signed IOANNES BELLINVS on ...
The Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Vittore Carpaccio, a painter of the Venetian School and student of Gentile Bellini. The latter also painted a portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan. [1] It was most likely painted around 1501/02, at the beginning of Loredan's reign. [2]
Il Paradiso is a massive (22 x 9 metres) oil painting on canvas that dominates the main hall of the Doge's Palace, which hosted the Great Council of Venice. It is one of the largest paintings on canvas in the world and was painted by Jacopo Robusti, known more commonly as Tintoretto. [1]
Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti is an oil painting by the Venetian master Titian, painted in the late 1540s, which is part of the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It is a portrait of Andrea Gritti , who was doge of Venice from 1523 to his death in 1538.
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
The Kimbell Art Museum version. In 1567, Pietro Loredan (1481/82–1570), a member of the House of Loredan, of one of Venice's most prominent and ancient families, was elected Doge, the highest office of the Republic of Venice. Tradition dictated that a newly elected Doge's official portrait be created by the leading artist of the time.
The painting depicts the immediate aftermath of the beheading of Faliero, which had taken place on the Scala dei Giganti (Giant's Staircase) of the Doge's Palace.The staircase, where Marino was also inaugurated as doge, is located within the interior of the building rather than facing out into St Mark's Square.