Marco Boschini (1602–1681) was an Italian painter and engraver of the early Baroque period in Venice.
Marco Boschini, from The Entire Kingdom of Candia, the winged Lion of St. Mark, symbol of the Republic of Venice above the island of Crete, 1651
The Realm or Kingdom of Candia or Duchy of Candia was the official name of Crete during the island's period as an overseas colony of the Republic of Venice, from the initial Venetian conquest in 1205–1212 to its fall to the Ottoman Empire during the Cretan War (1645–1669). The island was at the time and up to the early modern era commonly known as Candia after its capital, Candia or Chandax. In modern Greek historiography, the period is known as the Venetocracy.
Venetian Rocca al Mare fortress in Heraklion
Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos
Illustration of a joust in the Piazza San Marco, celebrating the recovery of Candia, by Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri, 1863.
Engraving of Candia, 1595