The Tombs of the Doges of Venice
From the Beginning of the Serenissima to 1907
by Victoria Avery, Janna May, Judith Ostermann, Benjamin Paul, Debra Pincus, Dennis Romano, Ruth Schilling, Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi, Rudolf Dellermann, David J. Drogin, Tiziana Franco, Dieter Girgensohn, Henrike Haug, Florian Horsthemke and Janna Israel and edited by Benjamin Paul
The splendor of the tombs of the doges has always amazed visitors of Venice. Already in 1484, the German pilgrim Felix Faber noted: “Never have I seen more costly and extravagant tombs. Even the graves of the popes in Rome cannot compare with these.” Indeed, designed by the greatest artists of the Serenissima, these often gigantic monuments belong to the most impressive and beautiful in the entire history of art. This is all the more surprising as the Venetian Republic was opposed to the cult of personality and the doge officially was only the primus inter pares, deprived of many privileges usually reserved for leaders of State. The tombs pursued multiple purposes, however. They not only commemorated the deceased ruler and facilitated the salvation of his soul. But they also served the doge’s relatives who hoped to profit from his reputation and, moreover, they propagated the political system of the Serenissima. The tombs of the doges, thus, were always also monuments to the State and had to negotiate the tension between private and public concerns. It is the complex interaction between these conflicting interests that accounts for the tombs’ central role in the political system of the Serenissima and explains why the monuments are of greatest importance not only for art historians but also for students of Venetian history and society in general. This interdisciplinary collection of essays penned by an international group of historians and art historians for the first time traces the tombs of the doges from the beginning of the Republic to long after her demise in 1797. It investigates the tombs from a variety of new and innovative point of views, which facilitate a more complex understanding not only of these monuments but ultimately also of the history of Venice and Italy up until the beginning of the twentieth century.
- By (author) Victoria Avery
- By (author) Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi
- By (author) Rudolf Dellermann
- By (author) David J. Drogin
- By (author) Tiziana Franco
- By (author) Dieter Girgensohn
- By (author) Henrike Haug
- By (author) Florian Horsthemke
- By (author) Janna Israel
- By (author) Janna May
- By (author) Judith Ostermann
- By (author) Benjamin Paul
- By (author) Debra Pincus
- By (author) Dennis Romano
- By (author) Ruth Schilling
- Edited by Benjamin Paul
Other Titles in this Series
Celebrazione e autocritica
La Serenissima e la ricerca dellidentita veneziana nel tardo Cinquecento
Volume 14
Letteratura e migrazione u Literatur und Migration
Proposte intorno alla figura del ponte u Fragen zur Figur der Brucke
Volume 24
I tondi di Venezia e Dumbarton Oaks / The Tondi in Venice and Dumbarton Oaks
Arte e ideologia imperiale tra Bisanzio e Venezia / Art and Imperial Ideology between Byzantium and Venice
Volume 21
Venezia e la nuova oikoumene Venedig und die neue Oikoumene
Cartografia del Quattrocento Kartographie im 15. Jahrhundert
Volume 17
La citta dell’occhio / Die Stadt des Auges
Dimensioni del visivo nella pittura e letteratura veneziane del Settecento / Dimensionen des Visuellen in der venezianischen Malerei und Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts
Volume 22
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