Andrea Vendramin
Andrea Vendramin | |
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Doge of Venice | |
In office 1476–1478 | |
Preceded by | Pietro Mocenigo |
Succeeded by | Giovanni Mocenigo |
Personal details | |
Born | 1393 Venice, Republic of Venice |
Died | 1478 (aged 84–85) Venice |
Nationality | Venetian |
Andrea Vendramin (1393 – May 5, 1478, both Venice) served as Doge of Venice, 1476–78, at the height of Venetian power, the only member of the Vendramin family to do so. His mother, Maria Michiel, and his wife Regina Gradenigo, both came from Dogal families. He had served as Venetian Procurator in Rome, and his brief reign was largely concerned with the end of the Second Turkish–Venetian War. He probably died of plague.
The process of his election as Doge resulted in a divisive split in the council, that resulted in bad feelings: in 1477 Antonio Feleto was imprisoned, then banished, for remarking in public that the Council of the Forty-One must have been hard-pressed to elect a cheesemonger Doge.
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He was interred in the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges. After Andrea's death, his widow married his brother, Luca.
References
- ^ According to Domenico Malipiero.
- JSTOR 2113883.
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art who have two detached figures of Adam and Eve.
- ^ Scholars Resource several excellent photographs Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine. See also Pope-Hennessy and other standard works.
- ^ A Verocchio drawing for the scheme (Victoria and Albert Museum) was included in the exhibition "Renaissance Florence: the Art of the 1470s", National Gallery, London, illustrated in The Burlington Magazine, 142 No. 1162 (January 2000:47 fig. 65.)