Agostino Barbarigo

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Portrait of Barbarigos by  Marco Basaiti

Agostino Barbarigo (born June 3, 1419 in Venice ; † September 20, 1501 ibid) was the 74th Doge of Venice from 1486 to 1501  . Barbarigo's reign was marked by wars with Austria , France and various northern Italian cities as well as with the Turks, whereby the coalitions changed frequently. Internally, it was only with the use of all his diplomatic skills that he managed to balance the tensions between old and new families.

family

The Barbarigo were among the richest families in Venice. They had extensive estates in Crete , near Verona and near Treviso . In addition to the two Doges Marco and Agostino Barbarigo, there were a number of procurators and cardinals in the family. The family died out in the middle of the 18th century.

Life

Agostino Barbarigo's coat of arms

Barbarigo was mainly active in the military field. He was in command in Padua , Verona and Capodistria and had distinguished himself in the armed conflicts with Ferrara . He had an imperious temperament and was extremely assertive and assertive. In his first marriage he was married to Isabetta Soranzo di Andrea, in his second marriage to a daughter from the Michiel family, with whom he had a son and five daughters.

The Doge's Office

Agostino followed his brother Marco Barbarigo in the Doge's office; one of the rare cases of a family standing the doge twice in a row. In the doge election he had prevailed against a Grimani , representative of the party of the old families, which subsequently led to tensions and intrigues between the parties. He is said to have introduced a kiss on the hand and kneeling in the ceremony, which cost him a lot of sympathy in Venice. Receptiveness to gifts, his tendency towards nepotism , allegations of secret agreements with the Duke of Milan and the complete ignoring of his promissio led to a closer examination of his financial circumstances after his death. The heirs were then sentenced to pay damages of 76,000 gold ducats to the republic.
Barbarigo commissioned Giorgione to decorate the facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi with frescoes, which are now completely weathered apart from a few remains.

photos

  • The Doge Agostino Barbarigo receives the Crown of Cyprus from Caterina Corner , relief on the funerary monument of the Corner in the Church of San Salvador
  • The kneeling doge Agostino Barbarigo. Sculpture of the ruined tomb of the Doge from the Church of Santa Maria della Carità, in the Antisagrestia of Santa Maria della Salute

Tomb

Agostino Barbarigo was buried like his brother Marco Barbarigo in the church of Santa Maria della Carità . The tomb was almost completely destroyed by Napoleon's troops. Only one figure of his namesake, St. Augustine, remained.

literature

  • Andrea Da Mosto : I Dogi di Venezia. Florence 1983.
  • Helmut Dumler: Venice and the Doges. Düsseldorf 2001.
  • Bernd Roeck : On art orders from Doge Agostino Barbarigo (1419–1501). The grave monument in the Chiesa della Carità in Venice and the “Pala Barbarigo” Giovanni Bellini. In: Roeck: Art patronage in the early modern times. Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-01370-1 , pp. 60-89.
  • Jan-Christoph Rößler: Churches in Venice . Churches destroyed under Napoleonic rule from 1806

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predecessor Office successor
Marco Barbarigo Doge of Venice
1486 - 1501 		Leonardo Loredan
personal data
SURNAME Barbarigo, Agostino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doge of Venice (1486–1501)
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1419
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1501
Place of death Venice