Barbaro family
The Barbaro family is an aristocratic Venetian family which included the humanists Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro, who were among the patrons of the architect Andrea Palladio and the painter Paolo Veronese.[1]
The Barbaro family is documented as holding high office in the Republic of Venice as early as the ninth century, and the family was organized into three primary branches.[2]
In the 15th century, the family's most famous branch 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.[3] This branch would also build 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 with only the family's two other branches surviving today. [4]
A second branch of the Barbaro family organized their line into an Albergo, an early corporation of nobility, and this branch resided in Venice at Palazzo Dario in the San Vio (San Vito) neighborhood. The Gothic palace next to Palazzo Dario was also owned by this branch and is called Palazzo Barbaro. One should not confuse this palace with the palazzi at the San Vidal location of the same name. Palazzo Dario is located on the Grand Canal of Venice, [5]. and the palace was renovated in 1479 by the architect Pietro Lombardo, [6]. This Barbaro branch remained at their palazzi until the 19th century before retreating to their baronial estate at Catanzaro. [7]
The second branch's primary income was based on silk production and later earned the title Gefursteter Graf (Princely Count) after their military support in favor of Austria's Holy Roman Emperor at the Battle of Temesvar on August 9, 1849. Their title in Italian it is documented as Conte Maschera, and the title was first presented to Giovanni Battista Barbaro, the father of this branch's princely line. [8]
In Venice, this branch's influence can also be found in the name of the famous Sala dell'Albergo, a meeting room used by the governing Albergo's Banca and Zonta (funders and overseers) [9] who supported the confraternity of the Chiesa di San Rocco di Venezia and its Scuola Grande di San Rocco. [10]
A third branch of the Barbaro family ceased being Venetian nobility after 1778 when they accepted the Maltese title of Marchesi di San Giorgio, and after a member of this branch married a German countess, they also became became the holders of the title Counts Von Zimmermann [11]
The Barbaro family is greatly recognized as an intellectual family who helped influence the course of Western Civilization through their scholarship in the areas of art, philosophy and science. They are well documented church and civic leaders, and Barbaro family members acted as deans and professors of the University of Padua and as Patriarchs of Aquileia.[12] The family is honored on the facade of the church of Santa Maria Zobenigo in Venice which was built for them to originally serve as a family crypt.[13]
Historical members
- Donato Barbaro about 1259: Venetian Admiral
- Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454): Humanist
- Ermolao Barbaro (Bishop), (1410-1471/1474) Bishop of Treviso and Verona.
- Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494): Asian 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): French Ambassador and co-owner of Villa Barbaro
- Antonio Barbaro, (-1679) Venetian soldier and colonial official.
Current members
- Vitus Sebastian Barbaro (1973-) 5th Princely Count of the Grand Princes of Transylvania[14]
- Anthony Cremona Barbaro (1955-) 9th Marquis of San Giorgio <ref> Barbaro Family Record, Source Material on the History of Venice, New York 2007
Notes
- ^ Hobson, pp.89 – 97
- ^ Hobson. p,91.
- ^ Ca'Barbaro
- ^ Hobson, p.93.
- ^ Spretti, Vittorio; Enciclopedia Storico Nobiliari Italiana "Barbaro" Lettera B p502
- ^ www.rosswarner.com
- ^ Palazzo Barbaro-Dario, Venice.JC-R.Net, Nauplion.Net/Ca Dario-Palazzo:HTML
- ^ Spretti, Vittorio; Enciclopedia Storico Nobiliari Italiana "Barbaro" Lettera B p.502
- ^ www.EVRS.com Sala dell'Albergo, "building and history"
- ^ Astris Zenkert, Tintoretto in der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble und Wirkung Ernst wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003 ISBN 3-8030-1918-4
- ^ Giles Ash, S; The Nobility of Malta, Publishers Enterprises Group (PEG) Ltd., 1988
- ^ The Patriarchate of Aquileia; Giga-Catholic Information
- ^ Alfredo Tafuri, trans.Jessica Levine, 1989, MIT Press, ISBN 0262700549
- ^ Barbaro Family Record, Source Material on the History of Venice; New York 2007
References
- Hobson, Anthony. (Villa Barbaro - pages 89 – 97) "Great Houses of Europe". 1961.(reprinted 1970) George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. London. ISBN 0-600-33843-6.
- Ca'Barbaro (Italian) retrieved 10 July 2007
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