The Doges and the Basilica
St. Mark’s is the city’s greatest monument, a temple of civic life as well as religious faith, a testament to Venice’s grandeur. For nearly a thousand years, it served as the ducal chapel.
St. Mark’s is the city’s greatest monument, a temple of civic life as well as religious faith, a testament to Venice’s grandeur. For nearly a thousand years, it served as the ducal chapel.
He welcomed the body of St. Mark in Venice and decided to build the first church
He built the first San Marco
He dies in a popular conspiracy. The church of San Marco is destroyed by the fire set on the Doge's Palace.
He had the third large San Marco designed on the model of the Apostoleion
He was crowned Doge in San Marco "nondum perfecta". Under his reign the first mosaics
He consecrated the church (1094) and placed the body of Saint Mark permanently in the crypt.
He is buried in the atrium
She is buried in the atrium
He orders the first golden altarpiece in Byzantium
The Doge of the Fourth Crusade and the conquest of Constantinople
He sets up the new Pala d'Oro with the upper addition, spoils of Constantinople
He is buried in the atrium
He is buried in the Baptistery
He is buried in the atrium
We owe him the baptistery, the chapel of Sant'Isidoro, and the new and definitive arrangement of the enamels of the golden altarpiece.
He is buried in the baptistery
We owe to him the new chapel of the Madonna or of the Mascoli
We owe to him the Renaissance altars of San Clemente, San Paolo and San Giacomo.
Under his doge Giorgio Spavento he built the new sacristy and the little church of San Teodoro
Client of the renovation works of the presbytery carried out by Jacopo Sansovino
His heart is buried in an urn under the floor of the presbytery.