The Doges and the Basilica

Giustiniano Partecipazio (o Particiaco) » 827 – 829
Received the body of St. Mark in Venice and decided to build the first church
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Giovanni Partecipazio (o Particiaco) » 829 – 836
Had the first St. Mark’s built
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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
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Domenico Contarini » 1043 – 1071
Had the third large St. Mark’s built modelled on the Apostoleion
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Domenico Selvo » 1071 – 1084
Crowned doge at St. Mark’s “nondum perfecta”. The first mosaics were made under his rule as doge
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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
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Felicita Michiel » † 1101
She is buried in the atrium
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Ordelaffo Falier » 1102 – 1118
Commissioned the first golden altar-piece with Bisantium
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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
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Marino Morosini » 1249 – 1253
He is buried in the atrium
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Giovanni Soranzo » 1312 – 1329
He is buried in the baptistery
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Bartolomeo Gradenigo » 1339 – 1343
He is buried in the atrium
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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
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Francesco Foscari » 1423 – 1457
He was responsible for the new chapel of Our Lady or of the Mascoli
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Cristoforo Moro » 1462 – 1471
He was responsible for the small Renaissance altars of St. Clement, St. Paul and St. James
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Agostino Barbarigo » 1486 – 1501
Under his rule as doge, Giorgio Spavento built the new sacristy and small church of St. Theodore
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Andrea Gritti » 1523 – 1539
He commissioned the renovation works on the presbytery, which were carried out by Jacopo Sansovino
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Francesco Erizzo » 1631 – 1646
His heart is buried in an urn beneath the floor of the presbytery