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Jacopo Contarini was the 47th Doge of the Serenissima (1275-1280).

Theodato Ipato was the 4th Doge of the Serenissima (742-755).

Obelerio Antenorio was the 9th Doge of the Serenissima (804-810).

Orio Mastropiero was the 40th doge of the Serenissima (1178-1192).

Vitale Faliero was the 32nd doge of the Serenissima (1085-1096).

Vitale Michiel I was the 33rd Doge of the Serenissima (1096-1102).

Domenico Selvo was the 31st doge of the Serenissima (1071-1085).

Father of Venetian painting, as well as of two excellent painters, Giovanni and Gentile. Jacopo Bellini was born in Venice around 1400 to Nicolò, a tin smelter.

The son of Rocco, a wealthy merchant, and Maria Mercati. After a few years in Venice, he studied in Rome for a year and only after the death of his father, at the age of 13, did he move to Bologna, where he found fertile ground to broaden and…

Before the institution of the office of doge on the Venetian lagoons, civil and military power was exercised by the Byzantine magister militum to whom the tribunes, who administered the various islands, were accountable.

Sanudo wrote: '...the doge gave orders for a solemn funeral to be held at St. Mark's and for her solemn obsequies to be paid...'; this was Venice's last grandiose farewell to the former Queen of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia, so much loved by her…

Giovanni Bellini known as Giambellino was born in Venice between 1430 and 1433. His father Jacopo set up an important workshop in Venice, where he taught his sons the craft. The eldest, Gentile, specialised in history painting; Giovanni was a…