Giacomo Foscarini
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Giacomo Foscarini, also spelled Jacopo Foscarini, was a merchant, statesman and admiral of the Republic of Venice.
Foscarini's funerary monument in the Carmini depicts him as a Captain General of the Sea
Palazzo Foscarini across from the Carmini, built by Giacomo
Detail from Andrea Vicentino's painting depicting Henry III's arrival in Venice. Foscarini is behind the papal nuncio.
Bodleian Library, MS Barocci 170, folio 2r
Venetian nobility
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The Venetian patriciate was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided, together with citizens and foreigners. Patrizio was the noble title of the memb
The Great Council in a voting session at the Doge's Palace, 1648.
Portrait of the Loredan Family, by Giovanni Bellini, 1507, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Leonardo Loredan, 75th Doge of Venice, ruled from 1501 until his death in 1521 and was a member of the Loredan family, one of the Republic's most prominent noble houses. His four sons are depicted wearing the typical regalia of Venetian noblemen.
Gianalberto Cardinal Badoer
Carlo Contarini portrait 2