{"id":3245,"date":"2022-03-03T09:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T09:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilicasanmarco.it\/the-doges-and-the-basilica\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:39:37","slug":"the-doges-and-the-basilica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.basilicasanmarco.it\/en\/the-doges-and-the-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doges and the Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Justinian Partecipazio (or Particiaco)<\/div>

He welcomed the body of St. Mark in Venice and decided to build the first church<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

829 - 836<\/div><\/div>
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Justinian Partecipazio (or Particiaco)<\/div>

He built the first San Marco<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

959 - 976<\/div><\/div>
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Peter Candiano IV<\/div>

He dies in a popular conspiracy. The church of San Marco is destroyed by the fire set on the Doge's Palace. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1043 - 1071<\/div><\/div>
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Domenico Contarini<\/div>

He had the third large San Marco designed on the model of the Apostoleion<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1071 - 1084<\/div><\/div>
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Domenico Selvo<\/div>

He was crowned Doge in San Marco \"nondum perfecta\". Under his reign the first mosaics <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1084 - 1096<\/div><\/div>
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Vitale Falier<\/div>

He consecrated the church (1094) and placed the body of Saint Mark permanently in the crypt.
He is buried in the atrium<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Felicita Michiel<\/div>

She is buried in the atrium<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1102 - 1118<\/div><\/div>
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Ordelaffo Falier<\/div>

He orders the first golden altarpiece in Byzantium<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1192 - 1205<\/div><\/div>
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Enrico Dandolo<\/div>

The Doge of the Fourth Crusade and the conquest of Constantinople<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1205 - 1229<\/div><\/div>
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Peter Ziani<\/div>

He sets up the new Pala d'Oro with the upper addition, spoils of Constantinople<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1249 - 1253<\/div><\/div>
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Marino Morosini<\/div>

He is buried in the atrium<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1312 - 1329<\/div><\/div>
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John Soranzo<\/div>

He is buried in the Baptistery<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1339 - 1343<\/div><\/div>
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Bartolomeo Gradenigo<\/div>

He is buried in the atrium<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1343 - 1354<\/div><\/div>
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Andrea Dandolo<\/div>

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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1423 - 1457<\/div><\/div>
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Francesco Foscari<\/div>

We owe to him the new chapel of the Madonna or of the Mascoli<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1462 - 1471<\/div><\/div>
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Christopher Moro<\/div>

We owe to him the Renaissance altars of San Clemente, San Paolo and San Giacomo.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1486 - 1501<\/div><\/div>
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Augustine Barbarigo<\/div>

Under his doge Giorgio Spavento he built the new sacristy and the little church of San Teodoro<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1523 - 1539<\/div><\/div>
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Andrea Gritti<\/div>

Client of the renovation works of the presbytery carried out by Jacopo Sansovino<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1631 - 1646<\/div><\/div>
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Francesco Erizzo<\/div>

His heart is buried in an urn under the floor of the presbytery.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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