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Mocenigo, Pietro d. 1476
Venetian Political Figure. Seventieth Venetian Doge from 1474 until his death. He was one of the greatest Venetian admirals and he played an important role in the war against the Turks by taking Smyrna in 1472 and annexing Cyprus to the Republic in 1475. He is shown on his tomb flanked by Roman soldiers. The three warriors holding up his tomb represent the ages of man. (Bio by: Bunny Boiler)
Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Monteverdi, Claudio b. May 15, 1567 d. November 29, 1643
Composer. A towering figure in music's transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods. He was the first great composer of opera and his "L'Orfeo" (1607) is the earliest such work in the modern repertory. Only two of his other operas survive complete, "Il ritorno d"Ulisse in patria" ("The Return of Ulysses", 1640) and "L'incoronazione di Poppea" ("The Coronation of Poppea", 1642). "Poppea", his masterpiece, is regarded by many as the finest opera written in the 1600s. Monteverdi was born...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Iglesia de Santa María Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Pizzinato, Armando b. 1910 d. 2004
Artits In 1930 he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice. In 1933 he had paintings shown in Milan and in 1936 he was awarded a scholarship in Rome. He abandoned painting during the Second World War and became a member of the Italian Resistance and was imprisoned by the Fascists. At the end of the war he returned to painting. In 1948 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale and then he began to exhibit his work internationally. (Bio by: Bunny Boiler)
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Pound, Ezra (Weston Loomis) b. October 30, 1885 d. November 1, 1972
Poet, Essayist. Born Ezra Weston Loomis Pound in Hailey, Idaho. He was the son of Homer Loomis Pound and his wife Isabel Weston. While still an infant, he moved with his family to Pennsylvania. Eventually he would attend college at the University of Pennsylvania, later moving on to Hamilton College in New York. After Graduation, he took a job at Wabash College in Indiana where he was an instructor in Romance Languages. He eventually resigned that position after what was reported as a minor...[Read More] (Bio by: Catharine)
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Rico y Ortega, Martin b. 1833 d. 1908
Artist. Remembered for his paintings of Venice, he studied painting in Paris after being awarded a government backed scholarship. In 1872 he went on a tour of Italy where he was impressed with the beauty of Venice and painted many pictures of the city. Even though he had made Paris his home he spent all his summers painting in Venice. (Bio by: Bunny Boiler)
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Robert, Louis Leopold b. May 13, 1794 d. March 20, 1835
Artist. A painter, he left his native Switzerland aged sixteen and moved to Paris where he studied. Discouraged by the success of one of his woks he committed suicide on the tenth anniversary of the suicide of his brother. (Bio by: Bunny Boiler)
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Rolfe, Frederick 'Baron Corvo' b. July 22, 1860 d. October 25, 1913
Author.
Cause of death: Heart stroke
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Rudge, Olga b. April 13, 1895 d. 1996
Musician. Violinist, musicologist, and the life-long companion of Ezra Pound.
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Stravinsky, Igor b. June 17, 1882 d. April 6, 1971
Composer, Conductor. He is often called "The Father of Modernism" in music. Stravinsky's radical innovations in rhythm and color, and his original approach to all the fundamentals of his art, opened up vast new territories of sound in the West. No other major composer of his time worked in as many different styles, reinventing each as he went along, or had a more pervasive effect on his contemporaries. A 1998 Time magazine poll ranked him among the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Plot: Greek Orthodox Section, Grave 36
Tintoretto (Robusti) (Jacopo) b. October, 1518 d. May 31, 1594
Italian Renaissance Artist. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures, and the bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light attributable to the Venetian School. He was born Jacopo Comin in Venice, Republic of Venice, in present-day Italy, the oldest of 21 children but was also known as Jacopo Robusti in his youth, stemming from his father's defense of the gates of Padua against the imperial troops during the War with the League of...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Church of Madonna del'Orto, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Urbani, Giovanni Cardinal b. March 26, 1900 d. September 17, 1969
Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Urbani was president of the Italian Bishops Conference from 1966. He succeeded Angelo Cardinal Romcalli as patriarch of Venice when Roncalli became Pope John XXIII in 1958. In 1958 he was elevated to Cardinal.
Church of San Marco, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Vecellio, Tiziano 'Titian' b. 1490 d. August 27, 1576
Painter. At the age of ten he was sent to Venice to start training in the workshop Zuccato. Soon Titian left this workshop and began studying painting in the workshops Bellini. In 1507, Titian joined the workshop of Giorgione as his assistant. In 1510 Titian received his first important commission to produce some frescoes in the Scuola del Santo in Padua. Since that time he began to win independent commissions and to establish himself as a painter in Venice. In 1513 he opened his own workshop...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Iglesia de Santa María Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Veronese, Paolo b. 1528 d. April 9, 1588
Italian painter. Paolo Caliari was born in Verona so he was known by the name Veronese. He moved to Venice in about 1553. Along with Titian and Tintoretto, he dominated the Venetian art scene. He is famous for painting religious scenes in a Venetian setting. (Bio by: Bunny Boiler)
San Sebastiano, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno b. January 12, 1876 d. January 21, 1948
Composer. He is best remembered for his comic operas, which updated the old Italian tradition of "opera buffa" in a pleasantly modern guise. They were internationally popular in the years before World War II, though none have remained in the repertory. Among them are "Le donne curiose" (1903), "I quattro rusteghi" (1906), "Il segreto di Susanna" (1909), "L'amore medico" (1913), "Gli amanti sposi" (1925), and "Il campiello" (1936). Several were based on comedies by the 18th Century playwright...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
Zarlino, Gioseffo b. March 22, 1517 d. February 14, 1590
Musicologist, Composer. He is considered the most important music theorist of the 16th Century. Zarlino's books "Le istitutioni harmoniche" (1558), "Dimonstrationi harmoniche" (1571), and "Sopplimenti musicali" (1588) were comprehensive surveys of Renaissance musical form and practice. His original ideas of counterpoint and tuning - he was the first to give primary importance to the key of C - were enormously influential in the Baroque era. Many historians believe he accurately identified...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Church of San Lorenzo, Venice, Provincia di Venezia, Veneto, Italy

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