Barbaro family
The Barbaro family was a patrician family who were nobles of the Republic of Venice. Various members are noted as church leaders, diplomats, patrons of the arts, military commanders, philosophers, scholars, and scientists.[1]
Famous members included the brothers Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro, who were patrons of the architect Andrea Palladio and the painter Paolo Veronese.[2]. Barbaro-family members acted as deans and professors of the University of Padua. Several members were also Patriarchs of Aquileia including:[3]
- Ermolao Barbaro – Patriarch 1491–1493
- Daniel Barbaro – Patriarch 1550–1570
- Francesco Barbaro – Bishop 1585–1593, Patriarch 1593–1616
- Ermolao II Barbaro – Bishop 1596–1616, Patriarch 1616–1622
The Barbaro family was organized into an Albergo, of which the family supported the Scuola Grande of the church of San Rocco, Venice, which primarily assisted citizens in time of plague, and the Scuola's Sala dell'Albergo functioned as the conference room for the members of the confraternity's Albergo.[4]
The Barbaro coat of arms is a red circle on a white field. It was granted in 1125 in remembrance of Admiral Marco Barbaro cutting off the hand of a Moor during the Battle of Ascalon and using the bleeding stump to draw a circle onto a turban- which he flew as a pennant from his masthead.[5][6] [7][8][9]
The church of San Francesco della Vigna houses a chapel of the Barbaro family containing the Barbaro ancestral device. [citation needed]
Patronage
The Barbaro family was connected to several building campaigns within and around Venice, some of which include:
- rebuilding the Rialto Bridge.
- expanding Palazzo Barbaro.
- overseeing Palazzo Dario.
- creating a Barbaro-family chapel within San Francesco della Vigna.
- rebuilding Santa Maria Zobenigo.
- creating Villa Barbaro.
History
The Barbaros had been true Renaisance men: scholars, philosophers, mathematicians, dilomats, scientists, politicians, military commanders, church patriarchs, and patrons of the arts. Daniele Barbaro hired Andrea Palladio to design his summer estate- the Villa Barbaro at Maser- and engaged Veronese to paint the frescoes. When he sat for his portrait, Titian painted it. The Barbaro palace was known as a center of humanistic intellectual discourse for the four centuries it was occupied by the Barbaro family. Palazzo Barbaro remained the Barbaro family's exclusive domain until the defeat and subsequent impoversment of Venice at the hands of Napoleon.[1]
The Barbaro family continues to exist today. For example, a branch of the family holds noble rank in Malta.[10]
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
References
- ^ a b “The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt, Penguin Books, 2006, pg.150 [1], ISBN 1594200580
- ^ Hobson, Anthony, "Villa Barbaro", in Great Houses of Europe, ed. Sacheverell Sitwell (London: Weidenfeld, 1961), pp. 89–97. ISBN 0-600-33843-6
- ^ ""The Patriarchate of Aquileia"". Retrieved 2007-10-07.
- ^ Astrid Zenkert, tintoretto in Der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble un Wirkung, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003. ISBN 3-8030-1918-4.
- ^ “Una famiglia veneziana nella storia: i Barbaro”, Michela Marangoni, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1996, pg. 135 [2], ISBN 8886166346
- ^ “Venice”, Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, Ballantyne Press, 1896, pg. 149
- ^ “Delle inscrizioni veneziane, Volume 4”, Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna, Fonni, 1969, pg. 520 [3]
- ^ “A literary companion to Venice”, Ian Littlewood, Ballantyne Press, 1995, pg. 150 [4]
- ^ “Guida per la città di Venezia all'amico delle belle arti, Volume”, Giannantonio Moschini, Giovanni Antonio Moschini, Tip. di Alvisopoli, 1815, pg. 468 [5]
- ^ www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d'Oro/sangiorgio.html