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

The Barbaro family was a patrician family who were s of the Republic of Venice. Various members are noted as 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.. Barbaro-family members acted as deans and professors of the University of Padua. Several members were also Patriarchs of Aquileia including:

The Barbaro family was organized into an Albergo, of which the family 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.

The Barbaro coat of arms is a red circle on a white field. It was granted in 1125 in remembrance of Admiral Marco Barbaro cutting off the hand of a Moor during the Battle of Ascalon and using the bleeding stump to draw a circle onto a turban- which he flew as a pennant from his masthead.

The church of San Francesco della Vigna houses a chapel of the Barbaro family containing the Barbaro ancestral device.

Patronage

The Barbaro family was connected to several building campaigns within and around Venice, some of which include:

The family fortunes diminished after Napoleon's defeat of Venice and they had to turn most of the Palazzo Barbaro into apartments. The last of the family died in the mid-nineteenth century. In 2001 Dr. Anthony Cremona Barbaro succeeded as the 9th Marquis di San Giorgio

Notable members

References

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  4. Astrid Zenkert, tintoretto in Der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble un Wirkung, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003. ISBN 3-8030-1918-4.
  5. “Una famiglia veneziana nella storia: i Barbaro”, Michela Marangoni, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1996, pg. 135 , ISBN 8886166346
  6. “Venice”, Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, Ballantyne Press, 1896, pg. 149
  7. “Delle inscrizioni veneziane, Volume 4”, Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna, Fonni, 1969, pg. 520
  8. “A literary companion to Venice”, Ian Littlewood, Ballantyne Press, 1995, pg. 150
  9. “Guida per la città di Venezia all'amico delle belle arti, Volume”, Giannantonio Moschini, Giovanni Antonio Moschini, Tip. di Alvisopoli, 1815, pg. 468
  10. “The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt, Penguin Books, 2006, pg.150 , ISBN 1594200580
  11. http://www.economicexpert.com/a Marchesi:di:San:Giorgio
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