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    The Contarini Madonna (Italian: Madonna Contarini) is an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, dating from c. 1475–1480 now...
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    The Contarini is one of the founding families of Venice and one of the oldest families of the Italian Nobility. In total eight Doges to the Republic of...
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    Tintoretto’s Altarpiece of St Agnes at the Madonna Dell’Orto in Venice and the Memorialisation of Cardinal Contarini.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld...
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    Gasparo Contarini (16 October 1483 – 24 August 1542) was an Italian diplomat, cardinal, and Bishop of Belluno. He advocated for dialogue with Protestants...
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    taken the Madonna Litta with him to Venice in March 1500, as the diarist Marcantonio Michiel apparently recorded its presence in the Ca' Contarini in that...
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    buildings began by 1631. Likely, the diplomat Paolo Sarpi and Doge Nicolo Contarini shared the intent to link the church to an order less closely associated...
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    Dobrzynski, Judith H. "'Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini' Review: A Renaissance Reunion" The Wall Street Journal, December 27,...
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    Palazzo Bonfadini Vivante Palazzo Calbo Crotta Palazzo Contarini Pisani Palazzo Correr Contarini Zorzi Palazzo Giustinian Pesaro Palazzo Falier Palazzo...
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  • Bartolomeo Roverella by Giovanni Battista Pittoni Portrait of Giulio Contarini da Mula (1759) by Alessandro Longhi Portrait of Giovanni Tommaso Minadois...
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    commercial wealth and power, and probably in 1063, under Doge Domenico I Contarini (in office 1043–1071), St Mark's was substantially rebuilt and enlarged...
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  • battles that took place in 1697 when the Venetian fleet, under Bartolomeo Contarini, hunted down the Turkish fleet in the Aegean Sea. The actions took place...
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    it is almost a constant in Bellini's countless Virgins (i.e. the Contarini Madonna in the Accademia, Venice). Rather than being just a formal preference...
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    the subject of cross-cultural exchange between Europe and the Levant. Madonna Enthroned with Child (1475–1485) - National Gallery, London Portrait of...
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    cathedral of Verona (1436), have disappeared. From c. 1430 is the panel with Madonna and Child, in the Accademia Carrara, once attributed to Gentile da Fabriano...
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  • Bertucci Contarini Vergine (Virgin) of Candia Nostra Signora (Our Lady) of Venice II – Giovanni Zeni Cristo (Christ) of Venice II – Girolamo Contarini Ruota...
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    Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio - Wawel Castle, Kraków Jupiter and Io Flora Alvise Contarini The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1530 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)...
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    Lucy and Catherine by Sebastiano del Piombo, commissioned by Caterina Contarini. On the wall of the apse is a series of canvases on the life of Saint...
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  • September 3 – Eric II, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1508) October 16 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542) October 26 – Hans Buchner, German...
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    genealogica, in "Giornale araldico" XXVII (1900), pp. (in Italian) Ettore Contarini, Il quadro dei Misteri del Rosario, dipinto di Giambattista Ramenghi seniore...
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    2020. Salomon, Xavier F. Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini. New York: The Frick Collection, 2023. Catalogue for exhibition in External...
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  • army was then Galeazzo Sanseverino, while the Serenissima sent Bernardo Contarini, provveditore of the stradiotti, to the rescue of Milan. However, in June...
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    1623 to 1624. Both busts are the work of Antonio Gai. Alvise Contarini Francesco Contarini La Vergine in gloria - Palma il Giovane 4th Malipiero Badoer...
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    battle in July 1657, however, the blockade would be broken again. Fregata Contarini Tomaso Francesco Principessa grande Tre Re Croce d'Oro Principessa piccola...
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    development of the galleon and line of battle tactics. Giovanni Pietro Contarini's History of the Events, which occurred from the Beginning of the War Brought...
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  • Caterina/Zanardi Rio de Santa Caterina Ponte Chiodo Rio de San Felice Ponte Contarini Rio de la Sensa Ponte Corrente Rio de Sant'Andrea (Gozzi-Sartori) Ponte...
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    death. He was buried there. His portrait is placed in the church of the Madonna of the Garden. Pozza, Marco (2014). "PARTICIACO, Orso II". Dizionario Biografico...
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    15th-century building, retaining a Gothic style into the Renaissance. Palazzo Contarini Fasan Palazzo Molin del Cuoridoro. Palazzo Pisani Moretta in the sestiere...
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    golden calf. In 1681, he was awarded the title of Cavalieri by Doge Alvise Contarini. In 1684, he helped in the decoration of San Zaccaria. Some sources claim...
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    Coptic icon of Madonna and Child...
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    Donato Antonio Priuli Francesco Contarini Giovanni I Cornaro Nicolò Contarini Francesco Erizzo Francesco Molin Carlo Contarini Francesco Cornaro Bertuccio...
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