Agostino Barbarigo

Agostino Barbarigo (* 1420, † September 20, 1501 ) was from 1486 to 1501 74th Doge of Venice. Barbarigo reign was marked by wars with Austria, France and various northern Italian cities as well as with the Turks, in which the coalitions frequently changed. Internally, he succeeded only by expending all his diplomatic skill to balance the tensions between old and new families.

Family

The Barbarigo were among the richest families of Venice. They had extensive real estate in Crete, near Verona and Treviso. Besides the two Doge Agostino Barbarigo Marco and there were a number of procurators and cardinals in the family. The family is extinct in the mid-18th century.

Life

Barbarigo was mainly active in the military field. He was commander in Padua, Verona and Koper and had distinguished himself in the wars with Ferrara. He was imperious temperament and extremely assertive willing and assertive. In his first marriage he was married to Isabetta Soranzo di Andrea, in a second marriage with a daughter of the house Michiel, with whom he had one son and five daughters.

The Dogenamt

Agostino followed his brother Marco Barbarigo in Dogenamt; one of the rare cases that a family after another introduced twice the Doge. When Dogenwahl he had against a Grimani, representatives of the party of the old families, enforced, which subsequently led to tensions and intrigues between the parties. He is said to have introduced kiss on the hand and knee in case the ceremony, what it has cost a lot of sympathy in Venice. Susceptibility for gifts, his penchant for nepotism allegations of secret agreements with the Duke of Milan and the complete ignoring his promisso led after his death to scrutiny of his financial situation. The heirs were sentenced to pay damages of 76,000 gold ducats to the Republic. Barberigo commissioned Giorgione, to provide the facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi frescoes, which are now fully weathered a few remnants.

Pictures

• Giovanni Bellini: Pala Barbarigo, 1488, church of San Pietro Martire, Murano
• Giovanni Bellini (attributed ): Portrait of the Doge, collection Harcourt, Oxford
• Vicenzo Catena: Portrait of Marco and Agostino Barbrigo.
• Leonardo Corona: Portrait of the Doge, ceiling fresco in the Sala del Consiglio Maggior, Doge's Palace

• The Doge Agostino Barbarigo receives from Caterina Corner, the crown of Cyprus, relief on the grave monument in the corner in the church of San Salvatore
• Doge Agostino Barbarigo The kneeling. Sculpture from the ruined tomb of the Doge from the church of Santa Maria della Carita, in the Antisagrestia of Santa Maria della Salute

Tomb

Agostino Barbarigo was his brother Marco Barbarigo as buried in the church of Santa Maria della Carita. The tomb was almost completely destroyed by Napoleon's troops. Get remained only a figure of his patron saint, St. Augustine.