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Section dedicated to the relatioships between the Basilica and the Doges


   
  • Giustiniano Partecipazio (o Particiaco) - 827 - 829
    Received the body of St. Mark in Venice and decided to build the first church

  • Giovanni Partecipazio (o Particiaco) - 829 - 836
    Had the first St. Mark's built

  • Pietro Candiano IV - 959 - 976
    Died in a conspiracy of the people. The church of St. Mark was destroyed by the fire set to the Doge's Palace

  • Domenico Contarini - 1043 - 1071
    Had the third large St. Mark's built modelled on the Apostoleion

  • Domenico Selvo - 1071 - 1084
    Crowned doge at St. Mark's "nondum perfecta". The first mosaics were made under his rule as doge

  • Vitale Falier - 1084 - 1096
    Consecrated the church (1094) and finally laid the body of St. Mark to rest in the crypt.
    He is buried in the atrium
  • Felicita Michiel - defunta nel 1101
    She is buried in the atrium

  • Ordelaffo Falier - 1102 - 1118
    Commissioned the first golden altar-piece with Bisantium

  • Enrico Dandolo - 1192 - 1205
    Doge of the 4th Crusade and the conquest of Constantinople

  • Pietro Ziani - 1205 - 1229
    Fitted the new golden altar-piece with the top addition, spoils of Constantinople

  • Marino Morosini - 1249 - 1253
    He is buried in the atrium

  • Giovanni Soranzo - 1312 - 1329
    He is buried in the baptistery

  • Bartolomeo Gradenigo - 1339 - 1343
    He is buried in the atrium

  • Andrea Dandolo - 1343 - 1354
    He was responsible for the baptistery, the chapel of St. Isidore, and the new and final arrangement of the enamels of the golden altar-piece. He is buried in the baptistery

  • Francesco Foscari - 1423 - 1457
    He was responsible for the new chapel of Our Lady or of the Mascoli

  • Cristoforo Moro - 1462 - 1471
    He was responsible for the small Renaissance altars of St. Clement, St. Paul and St. James

  • Agostino Barbarigo - 1486 - 1501
    Under his rule as doge, Giorgio Spavento built the new sacristy and small church of St. Theodore

  • Andrea Gritti - 1523 - 1539
    He commissioned the renovation works on the presbytery, which were carried out by Jacopo Sansovino

  • Francesco Erizzo - 1631 - 1646
    His heart is buried in an urn beneath the floor of the presbytery

   

 

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