#16th century venice

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Portrait of Marino Grimani

Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto  (Italian, 1519–1594) 

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1578

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Marino Grimani (1 July 1532, in Venice – 25 December 1605, in Venice) was the 89th Doge of Venice, reigning from 26 April 1595 until his death.

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Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, Crowning the Lion of St. Mark, Domenico Tintoretto, ca. 1595-9

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Binding on a Venetian Dogale, second half of the 16th Century.

A Dogale is a document issued by a Venetian Doge, the highest elected official in several Italian Republics.

In the collection of Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan.

[city-of-ladies]

"It’s an age-old dilemma: choosing between marriage and a career. A letter from the fifteenth century provides insight into how one woman advised another on this very question.

Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558) was arguably the most prominent female intellectual in medieval Venice. She gained fame for delivering public orations in her city and was even offered a position at the Spanish court (though the Venetian Doge forbade her from accepting it). Her reputation piqued the interest of Alessandra Scala, the daughter of a Florentine chancellor. Despite being only sixteen, Alessandra was already gaining recognition for her poetry and scholarship in Greek.

The two women began corresponding, with Alessandra seemingly seeking Cassandra’s guidance on whether she should get married. Here is Cassandra’s response, written on January 18, 1492:

From your very elegant letter, I saw clearly that you did not judge ours to be a commonplace friendship (a judgment which gave me great pleasure), since you wanted not only for me to know everything about you, but also to advise you on these same matters. And so, my Alessandra, you are uncertain whether to dedicate yourself to the Muses or to a Man? On this matter, I think you must choose that to which nature made you more disposed. For Plato maintains that any advice which is received is received according to the readiness of the receiver. For this reason, it will be very easy for you to make that choice, whereas no violently imposed decision lasts forever.

Two years later, Alessandra married Michele Marullo, a Greek poet. Cassandra herself also married in 1500, but after her husband’s death in 1520, she remained in Venice, working as a director of an orphanage. Her last public speech was delivered just two years before her death at the age of 93."

A Medieval Take on Choosing Between Love and Career, Medievalists.net

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This little fellow is Ms. Codex 302, a codex listing offices of the Republic of Venice in Italy, Dalmatia and the Levant, with salaries. It's minimally decorated with rubricated headings and initials, and was written in Venice between 1575 and 1650.

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Regé-Jean Page as Solanio in the stage production of The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 2015).

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Relief Bust of a Young Male Saint (?), Tullio Lombardo, 1510 – 1516

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Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia (1554-1556) by Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), oil on canvas, 365 × 147 cm, Doge's Palace, Palazzo Ducale, Venice

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Filigrana Bottle (Kuttrolf), late 16th or early 17th century, Italian.

Free- and mold-blown colorless (slightly gray) glass with lattimo canes.

Getty Museum

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Possible badge of a Baiulo or Balio or Balivo of the Republic of Venice, in the shape of a ship, probably from the 16th century. Additional production probably from the first third of the 18th century. Sheet gold, partly enameled, gold wire, with twelve old pearls on a gold carrying chain.

This is an official badge of the Republic of Venice for a baiulo or balio or balivo. This is the designation for a high official representative of a political authority, in this case the Venetian Doge and his government. In Venetian possessions he served as an authorized governor, abroad as an extraordinarily authorized permanent diplomatic representative of the Doge.

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Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, c. 1604-5. Painted by Lavinia Fontana, possibly the first female career artist in Western Europe.

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Oil painting, ca. 1535, Italian.

Portraying the family of Arrigo Licinio.

Painted by Bernardino Licinio.

Galleria Borghese.

[waldires]

The Shepherd (A Boy with a Flute), c. 1515 by Giorgione, oil on canvas 62,5x49,1 cm

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Giorgione, The Tempest, ca. 1504, oil/canvas (Galleria dell' Accademia, Venice)

The most enigmatic of Giorgione's masterpieces, The Tempest may be a representation of Silvio Vendramin (at left), of Venice's powerful Vendramin famiy, observing his own surprise birth in the middle of a woods. The story was part of a popular poem at the time of the painting's creation.

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“If during this period you chance to find your ears ringing it will be because I am communing with all those dark things and horrors and tears of yours, or else writing pages about you that will still be read a century after you are gone; and this, if it be owing to no perfection they may have, shall be due to the high renown of your name which they hear before them, and which of itself is companion to eternity.”

—Pietro Bembo to Lucrezia Borgia, Letter XXVI, Venice, 25 July 1504

[upennmanuscripts]

Today's #ToolingTuesday is LJS 59, 16th-century morocco, blind- and gold-tooled. The binding is contemporary with the text, a gorgeously illuminated Venetian dogale.

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