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The House of Cornaro or Corner was a patrician family in the Republic of Venice which included many doges and other high officials. The name Corner, originally from the Venetian language, was adopted
Ca' Corner, one of eight palaces along Venice's Grand Canal commissioned by the Cornaro family.
Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in the Cornaro family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.
Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore, Venice
Catherine Cornaro
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Catherine Cornaro was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus, also holding the titles of Queen of Jerusalem and Queen of Armenia. She became queen consort of Cyprus by marriage to James II of Cypru
Cornaro family
…Great House and Cornaro Piscopia. The latter name derived from the 1363 grant of the fief of Piscopia in the Kingdom of Cyprus to Federico Cornaro. When Caterina Cornaro married king James II of Cyprus in 1468, the Lusignan royal arms were added to the family arms party per pale. They had eight palaces on the Grand…
Portrait of Catherine Cornaro by Gentile Bellini, c. 1500
Posthumous portrait 1542 by Titian, of Catherine Carnaro as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine's tombstone
Her funerary monument