Arms of the Cornaro familyCa' Corner, one of eight palaces along Venice's Grand Canal commissioned by the Cornaro family.Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in the Cornaro family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.
The House of Cornaro or Corner were a Venetian patrician family in the Republic of Venice and included many Doges and other high officials. The name Corner, originally from the Venetian dialect, was adopted in the eighteenth century. The older standard Italian Cornaro is no longer common in Italian sources referring to earlier members of the family, but remains so in English.
The House of Cornaro or Corner were a Venetian patrician family in the Republic of Venice and included many Doges and other high officials. The name Corner...
includes at the sides two sets of donor portraits of members of the Cornarofamily, who watch the main central group as though in boxes in a theatre. The...
who claimed a connection to the noble Cornarofamily of Venice, a connection he was at pains to prove, Cornaro expanded a modest stake from his mother's...
the "Corner (or Cornaro) Family"; it is so named because Caterina Cornaro, who became Queen of Cyprus by marriage, was born to this family and at this site...
Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km northwest of Venice, Italy. It was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea...
British Library. The Cornaro Atlas is an 80-page Venetian manuscript volume, estimated to date c. 1489. It is named after the Cornarofamily, one of the leading...
of various members of the Cornarofamily—the Venetian family memorialized in the chapel, including Cardinal Federico Cornaro who commissioned the chapel...
of noble families normally never had articles preceding them such as the House of Farnese (from a territorial holding) and the Cornarofamily (from a prince-bishopric)...
Vikentios Kornaros (Greek: Βιτσέντζος or Βικέντιος Κορνάρος) or Vincenzo Cornaro (March 29, 1553 – 1613/1614) was a Cretan poet, who wrote the romantic...
Lodovico Moresco, but in 1306 it fell to Andrea Cornaro, a member of the Venetian Cornarofamily. The Cornaro controlled Karpathos until 1538, when it passed...
a ceiling and other panels, for a room in a Venetian palace of the Cornarofamily, but are now in the Art Institute of Chicago. They show the story of...
groups of Baroque donor portraits are those of the male members of the Cornarofamily, who sit in boxes as if at the theatre to either side of the sculpted...
from Albania, while a revolt in Cyprus gave back the island to the Cornarofamily and, subsequently, to the Serenissima (1473). Its prestige seemed reassured...
in the Church. Cornaro now attempted to turn the Dogal position to his family's advantage. In 1626, Pope Urban VIII appointed Cornaro's son Federico Baldissera...
Empire, though Venice was to enjoy economic growth during this time. The Cornarofamily to which the future doge was born was one of Venice's oldest, its lineage...
hands of the Knights of St John, Kasos was governed by the Venetian Cornarofamily from 1306, before falling to Barbarossa and the Ottomans in 1537. The...
Girolamo Corner or Cornaro (25 June 1632 – 1 October 1690) was a Venetian nobleman and statesman. He served in high military posts during the Morean War...
France. Son of Pietro Morosini and Cornelia Cornaro, nephew of Cardinal Luigi Cornaro and Cardinal Federico Cornaro. Morosina Morosini-Grimani (1545–1614)...
from 22 May 1709 until his death. Cornaro was born and died in Venice. He was a career statesman from a noble family. During his time as Doge, he led Venice...
with a Falcon, also called Portrait of a Man of the CornaroFamily with a Falcon or Giorgio Cornaro with a Falcon, is an oil painting by the Italian painter...
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