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Aufgabe ist fürtrefflich ausgeführt. Das Schiff ist ganz Zierat, also darf man nicht sagen: mit Zierat überladen, ganz vergoldetes Schnitzwerk, sonst zu keinem Gebrauch, eine wahre Monstranz, um dem Volke seine Häupter recht herrlich zu zeigen. Wissen wir doch: das Volk, wie es gern seine Hüte schmückt, will auch seine Obern prächtig und geputzt sehen. Dieses Prunkschiff ist ein rechtes Inventarienstück, woran man sehen kann, was die Venezianer waren und sich zu sein dünkten.
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losing its cultural connection with its own history. It's not enough to live in the future, the city needs to connect with and remember its glorious past." As far as 2024, no further news have been published about the planned reconstruction of the vessel, leading many to believe that the project was abandoned.
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of 90. The doge's throne was in the stern, and the prow bore the traditional figurehead representing
Justice with sword and scales. The barge was propelled by 168 oarsmen rowing in teams of four on its 42 oars each 11 metres (36 ft) in length; another 40 sailors were required to man it. Only the
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Ich komme immer auf mein Altes zurück. Wenn dem Künstler ein echter
Gegenstand gegeben ist, so kann er etwas Echtes leisten. Hier war ihm aufgetragen, eine Galeere zu bilden, die wert wäre, die Häupter der Republik am feierlichsten Tage zum Sakrament ihrer hergebrachten Meerherrschaft zu tragen, und
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Fondazione
Bucintoro hoped that the vessel would become "the most visited floating museum in the world", but also saw the project as a means to "help Venice recover its former glory and its old spirit". According to Paterno, "Invaded by so many million tourists, the city risks losing its identity,
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In
February 2008, plans to rebuild the bucentaur destroyed in 1798 were announced. More than 200 shipbuilders, woodcarvers and jewelers started work on 15 March 2008 at the Arsenale. It has been reported by the Italian press that it will take two years for the bucentaur to be constructed. However,
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I always return to my old theme. If a genuine object is given to the artist, then he can achieve something genuine. Here was laid on him the responsibility of constructing a galley worthy of carrying the heads of the
Republic on the most solemn day to consecrate their traditional dominion over the
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Habiti d'hvomeni et donne venetiane: con la processione della serma
Signoria et altri particolari cioè trionfi feste cerimonie pvbliche della nobilissima città di Venetia and other Particulars, that is, Triumphal Entries, Feasts, Public Ceremonies, of the Most Noble City of
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Begriff des Bucentaur auszusprechen, nenne ich ihn eine Prachtgaleere. Der ältere, von dem wir noch Abbildungen haben, rechtfertigt diese Benennung noch mehr als der gegenwärtige, der uns durch seinen Glanz über seinen Ursprung verblendet.
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542:) which was published in 1500. This work pictured a bucentaur afloat in the Arsenale without oars or decoration save for a large wooden sculpture of Justice in the bow. A similar illustration was produced by Andrea Valvassore between 1517 and 1525.
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20 million project, said in March 2008 that "e'll build it as fast as we can but we're not in a hurry." It is intended that the project will make use of traditional shipbuilding techniques and original materials, including
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sea, and this task is carried out excellently. The ship is itself an ornament; therefore one may not say that it is overloaded with ornaments, and only a mass of gilded carvings that are otherwise useless. In reality it is a
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and set fire to them to recover the gold. The ship burned for three days, and French soldiers used 400 mules to carry away its gold. The decorative elements of the vessel that survived the flames are preserved in the
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Scholars believe there were four major barges, the first significant bucentaur having been built in 1311. The last and most magnificent of the historic bucentaurs made its maiden voyage in 1729 in the reign of Doge
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The last and most magnificent of the historic bucentaurs was commissioned by the Senate in 1719, and the construction of it began in the
Arsenale in 1722. The ship was designed by Michele Stefano Conti, the
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the doge was simply assigned a small galley from the
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to wed the sea", adding that "it was a beautiful work, larger and wider than the other one". The proportions and rich decoration of this Bucentaur, built in the reign of Doge
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had the engineer Giovanni Casoni make a 1:10 scale model of the 1727 Bucentaur before it was destroyed. The model is currently kept at the Naval History Museum in Venice.
566:(preserved in the Museum of Naval History in Venice). The movable canopy of the vessel was covered with red fabric on the outside, and blue fabric with gold stars inside.
413:... cum uno artificioso et solemni Bucentauro, super quo venit usque ad S. Clementem, quo jam pervenerat principalior et solemnior Bucentaurus cum consiliariis, &c
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The term was also used to describe a 16th-century sumptuous transport boat, built and decorated in Modena, to celebrate the marriage of Lucrezia, the daughter of
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ordered this bucentaur to be destroyed, less for the sake of its golden decorations than as a political gesture to symbolize his victory in
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being chosen as that on which the doge set out on his expedition. The form it took was a solemn procession of boats, headed by the doge's
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lived from 1545 to 21 January 1614, and was crowned official consort in 1597 after her husband Marino Grimani's election as doge in 1595.
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extending from the ends of the two bow spurs. It was once believed that most of the wooden sculptures, including a large sculpture of
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for France to make a financial contribution as a goodwill gesture to compensate for Napoleon's "vandalism" of the 1729 vessel.
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of 1268 and Giovanni Soranzo of 1312 which mention the construction of a bucentaur in the Arsenale shipyard and naval depot.
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with sword and scales. The barge was propelled by 168 oarsmen, and another 40 sailors were required to man it.
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most handsome and sturdy youths of the Arsenale were selected for the ship's crew. The new bucentaur made its
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Notizie de' pittori, scultori, incisori, e architetti natii degli stati del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modena
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where he stayed during his visit to Venice. The ship was also used to transport the newly crowned Dogaressa
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forms. Contemporary illustrations show that the sides of the bucentaur were covered by mythical figures of
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La storia del Bucintoro: Bucintoro del 1727 [The History of the Bucentaur: The Bucentaur of 1727]
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La storia del Bucintoro: Bucintoro del 1606 [The History of the Bucentaur: The Bucentaur of 1606]
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La storia del Bucintoro: Bucintoro del 1526 [The History of the Bucentaur: The Bucentaur of 1526]
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La storia del Bucintoro: Bucintoro del 1311 [The History of the Bucentaur: The Bucentaur of 1311]
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wood, and will reproduce gold decorations. The foundation is supported by businessmen in the
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to honour his father's death; the bucentaur was twice the size of the ship mentioned in the
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in Venice, and there is a detailed scale model of the vessel in the Arsenale. The
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La storia del Bucintoro [The History of the Bucentaur]
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On the Origin, Site and Officials of the City of Venice
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La flotta di Venezia: Navi e barche della Serenissima
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The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena
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1786:"Venetian dream boat: Ship of fools sails again"
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1721:, Comitato Festa della Sensa, archived from
1711:(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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1215:(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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1381:, Fondazione Bucintoro, archived from
1353:, Fondazione Bucintoro, archived from
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746:Antonii Coradini sculptoris Inventum
573:was conveyed with the doge down the
189:of 90. The doge's throne was in the
2665:Ships built by the Venetian Arsenal
2282: Judicial magistracies
1757:. A translation of an extract from
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634:Habiti d'hvomeni et donne venetiane
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2297: Fiscal magistracies
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1852:, Fugitive Ink , 29 February 2008
1674:, Fugitive Ink , 29 February 2008
1108:Richard Owen (23 February 2008),
1067:History of the Republic of Venice
441:Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
396:quotes from the chronicle of the
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1881:Lucchini, Antonio Maria (1751),
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2655:Early modern history of Italy
2330:Esecutori contro la bestemmia
2016:Serrata del Maggior Consiglio
1759:G.B. Rubin de Cervin (1985),
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1290:G.B. Rubin de Cervin (1985),
1227:Tiraboschi, Girolamo (1786).
327:on the analogy of an alleged
32:French ship Bucentaure (1803)
2503:Venetian commercial shipping
2413:Provveditore Generale da Mar
907:Marriage of the Sea ceremony
885:Marriage of the Sea ceremony
632:'s copy of Giacomo Franco's
514:Marriage of the Sea ceremony
268:navilium duecentorum hominum
149:. It was used every year on
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2020:Wars of expansion in Italy
1849:On rebuilding the Bucintoro
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1738:McManus, Warren (transl.),
1671:On rebuilding the Bucintoro
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2408:Captain General of the Sea
2345:Cinque savi alla mercanzia
1921:Collier's New Encyclopedia
1592:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1430:Giacomo Franco (c. 1609),
1269:Warren McManus (transl.),
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1708:Encyclopædia Britannica
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2574:Accademia Veneziana
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2270:Avogadoria de Comùn
1725:on 17 February 2012
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1146:on 17 February 2012
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