Marcantonio Barbaro
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Marcantonio Barbaro (1518–1595) was a Venetian diplomat. He served in France and was later, as ambassador to Istanbul, negotiated a peace treaty in the aftermath of the loss of Cyprus in 1571 and the Battle of Lepanto later the same year.
He was born in Venice into the aristocratic Barbaro family. His father was Francesco di Daniele Barbaro and his mother Elena Pisani, daughter of the banker Alvise Pisani and Cecilia Giustinian. Marantonio was the brother of Daniele Barbaro. The brothers are famous for their patronage of the architect Palladio, who designed for them the Villa Barbaro at their country estate at Maser. The villa is now preserved as part of the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". The brothers used their influence to help Palladio gain commissions in Venice itself, eg the church of the Redentore [1].
Marcantonio had four children by his cousin Giustina Giustinian, one of which, Francesco became Patriarch of Aquileia, and another, Alvise married a daughter of Jacopo Foscarini [2].
[edit] References
- ^ Venice between East and West: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Palladio's Church of the Redentore Deborah Howard, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Sep., 2003), pp. 306-325 (article consists of 20 pages) Published by: Society of Architectural Historians
- ^ Venice and the Renaissance, Manfredo Tafuri, trans.Jessica Levine, 1989, MIT Press, ISBN 0262700549
