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It’s a Doge’s Life: Examining Term Limits in Venetian Doges’ Life Tenure
Histories, 2023 During most of the lifespan of the Venetian republic, doges (the name their presidents received) were elected for life. However, a long tenure was a rare event, which effectively resulted in term limits, as has already been reported by several authors ...
Juan Julian Merelo
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On Art, Wealth, and Power: The Venetian Republic [PDF]
Clinical Chemistry, 2017 In the city of Venice, the combination of light, water, and architecture of buildings and public spaces has inspired artists, photographers, and filmmakers (1). Venetians have cultivated the image of their city as a place of exceptional beauty and deliberately used art to enhance it (2, 3). Its art goes back to the Byzantine period.
Marek H Dominiczak, Dominiczak Marek H
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The market for paintings in the Venetian Republic from Renaissance to Rococò [PDF]
Journal of Cultural Economics, 2012 We study the art market in the Venetian Republic from 1550 to 1750 analyzing the determinants of the prices (adjusted for the cost of living measured by the price of wheat) of figurative paintings. Reputation of the painters, size of the paintings and other quantifiable factors affect prices as expected.
Federico Etro +2 more
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The Most Serene Republic of Venice. The Republican Venetian court in the 15th and 16th century
Historia.scribere, 2015 The following proseminar-paper works on the question whether there was a monarchic court and an equivalent courtly culture in Renaissance Venice despite its Republican constitution. The seafaring nation disposed of several aristocratic institutions which
Hannes Chronst, Lisa-Marie Gabriel
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Interaction of monetary and fiscal policy from a historical perspective: Precious metals and Venetian government debt [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2022 Was monetary policy crucial for early sovereign debt sustainability? This paper analyses whether the availability of gold and silver drove Venetian government debt servicing costs in the late medieval period.
Božović Miloš
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Muzyka, 2022 During the late mediaeval and early modern periods, Crete was the most important Venetian colony, giving the Republic almost unchallenged commercial and military control of the eastern Mediterranean.
Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos
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Assalto dal mare in Arcipelago: Alessandro del Borro nella guerra di Candia, 1654–1656
Nuova Antologia Militare, 2022 In the central years of the War of Candia, fought between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire during the period from 1645 to 1669, the troops organized and directed in the service of the Most Serene Republic by the Tuscan Marquis Alessandro del
Guido Candiani
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Saint Tryphon’s reliquary casket in Kotor. A contribution to the study of the iconography [PDF]
Zograf, 2019 The paper analyses late Gothic and early Renaissance imagery on the reliquary casket of Saint Tryphon kept in the Kotor Cathedral. The iconography of the torture and death scenes of the young martyr Tryphon, as well the representation of the ...
Živković Valentina
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Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2011 Famous Guy Patin’s son, Charles Patin is a physician and precursor numismatist, whose academic career at Paris was early crushed by Louis XIV, because of free-thinking and forbidden books traffic.
Patrick Ferté
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Un secrétaire vénitien entre archives et livres imprimés : Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557)
Laboratoire Italien, 2019 Though the Venetian secretaries’ anonymity does not make it easy to gauge their political influence, historiography suggests that they played a significant role in the decision-making process of the early modern Venetian Republic. It has been proven that
Fiona Lejosne
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