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The Barbaro family was an aristocratic Venetian family which included the humanists Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro, who were among the patrons of the architect Andrea Palladio and the painter Paolo Veronese.

The family are documented as holding high office in the republic as early as the ninth century. In the 15th century they built the large Gothic Palazzo Barbaro on Venice's grand canal. The family also had a country retreat at Maser - the Villa Barbaro designed by Palladio

Barbaro family members acted as deans and professors of the University of Padua and as Patriarchs of Aquileia. The church of Santa Maria Zobenigo in Venice was built for them although the original family church was San Francesco della Vigna, the cemetery of which Daniele Barbaro had wished to be buried in. The male line of the Venetian branch of the family died out in the 18th century.

Notable members

• Donato Barbaro about 1259.
• Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454) an important humanist
• Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494)
• Ermolao Barbaro (1454—1493/1495)
• Marco Barbaro (1511–1570)
• Daniele Barbaro (1513-70), brother of Marcantonio; they owned Villa Barbaro
• Marcantonio Barbaro (1518–1595)

Notes

1. Hobson, pp.89 – 97
2. Hobson. p,91.
3. Ca'Barbaro
4. Venice and the Renaissance, Manfredo Tafuri, trans.Jessica Levine, 1989, MIT Press, ISBN 0262700549
5. Hobson, p.93.

References

• Hobson, Anthony. (Villa Barbaro - pages 89 – 97) "Great Houses of Europe". 1961.(reprinted 1970) George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. London. ISBN 0-600-33843-6.
• Ca'Barbaro (Italian) retrieved 10 July 2007

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