Barbaro family
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The Barbaro family is an patrician Venetian family. Famous members include the brothers Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro, who were patrons of the architect Andrea Palladio and the painter Paolo Veronese.[1]. This branch built a country home at Maser - the famous Villa Barbaro designed by Palladio. By the end of the 18th century, this branch's male line died out: the family's two other branches survive today. [2]
The Barbaro family is documented as holding high office in the Republic of Venice as early as the ninth century,[3] although no member was ever Doge. Barbaro family members acted as deans and professors of the University of Padua and as Patriarchs of Aquileia.[4]
A Vincenzo Barbaro inherited the Palazzo Dario in 1494.
In the 17th century, the family expanded upon their large Palazzo Barbaro of Gothic design on Venice's Grand Canal by also building a second Baroque palace right next to it for the purpose of housing their ballroom.[5]
The church of San Francesco della Vigna houses a chapel of the Barbaro family containing the Barbaro ancestral device, a red circle on a white field, granted in the 12th century after Admiral Marco Barbaro cut off the hand of a moor and placed it on the man's turban which he then flew from his masthead [6]. 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.[7]
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
- ^ Hobson, p. 93.
- ^ Hobson, p. 91.
- ^ "The Patriarchate of Aquileia". Retrieved on 2007-10-07.
- ^ "Ca' Barbaro" (Italian). Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
- ^ The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto, Jonathan Buckley, Rough Guides, 2004, pg.165
- ^ Tafuri, Manfredo, Venice and the Renaissance, trans. Jessica Levine (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989). ISBN 0262700549
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