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The Barbaro family is a prominent noble Venetian family who governed as part of the ruling patriciate within the Republic of Venice. The family is especially noted for being dedicated humanists, intellectuals and patrons of the arts. Of the family's three branches, two continue to survive today, with various titular rights. .
History
The Barbaro family began as ancient Roman aristocracy, eventually moving to Istria and Trieste, and ultimately settling into Venice by the year of 868, serving as one of the "old" patrician families of Venice. Barbaro family members also served as deans and professors of the University of Padua and as Patriarchs of Aquileia. Two of the family's most famous members are the brothers Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro, patrons of the architect Andrea Palladio and the painter Paolo Veronese, of which the family commissioned both masters to build Villa Barbaro at Maser.
In 1494, Vincenzo Barbaro inherited Palazzo Dario and Palazzo Barbaro of the San Vito (St. Vitus) quarter on the Grand Canal, within the ecclesiastical district of St. Sebastian of Dorsoduro. In the 17th century, the Barbaro family expanded upon their large Palazzo Barbaro at the San Vidal (St. Vitale) quarter, of Gothic design, 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 for the Barbaro family, containing the family coat of arms, a red ring on a white field, granted by Doge Vital I Michele in the 12th century after Admiral Marco Barbaro was victorious in 1121 at the Holy Land. The family is also honoured on the facade of another Venetian church, Santa Maria Zobenigo, which was rebuilt by them to provide a family crypt.
The House of Barbaro organized their family ties within an Albergo, and the Barbaro Albergo supported the Scuola Grande of the church of San Rocco, Venice, which primarily assisted citizens in time of plague. The Scuola's Sala dell'Albergo functioned as the conference room for the members of the confraternity's Albergo.
Notable members
- Donato Barbaro (fl. c. 1259), Venetian admiral
- Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454), humanist
- Ermolao Barbaro (1410–1471/1474), bishop of Treviso and Verona
- Giosafat Barbaro (1413–1494), ambassador
- Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1493/1495), philosopher
- Marco Barbaro (1511–1570), genealogist
- Daniele Barbaro (1513–70), scholar, cardinal and co-owner of Villa Barbaro
- Marcantonio Barbaro (1518–1595), ambassador and co-owner of Villa Barbaro
- Antonio Barbaro (d. 1679), Venetian soldier and colonial official
Notes
- Hobson, Anthony, "Villa Barbaro", in Great Houses of Europe, ed. Sacheverell Sitwell, London: Weidenfeld, 1961, pp. 89–97. ISBN 0-600-33843-6
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- ""The Patriarchate of Aquileia"". Retrieved 2007-10-07.
- Hobson, Anthony, Villa Barbaro, in Great Houses of Europe, ed. Sacheverell Sitwell, London: Weidenfeld, 1961, pp.89-97. ISBN 0-600-33843-6
- Venice and the Veneto by DK Travel Guides, pp.123-135
- ""Ca' Barbaro" (Italian)". Retrieved 2008-11-14.
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- Tafuri, Manfredo, Venice and the Renaissance, trans. Jessica Levine (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989). ISBN 0262700549
- Astrid Zenkert, tintoretto in Der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble un Wirkung, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003. ISBN 3-8030-1918-4.