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Plate 5: The Doge in the Bucintoro Departing for the Porto di Lido on Ascension Day, from 'Ducal Ceremonies and Festivals' (Le Feste Ducali)

Publisher Lodovico Furlanetto Italian
ca. 1766
Not on view
The main feature of this print is the state barge (bucintoro) that was used annually on Ascension Day to transport the doge to a ceremony that symbolically wedded Venice to the Adriatic Sea. The vessel was 120 feet long and 26 feet high. The doge’s throne was in the stern, and at the prow was a figure holding scales representing Justice. The larger print shown adjacent to this one demonstrates the opulence of the procession. In 1798 the French general Napoleon ordered the barge destroyed, a symbolic act to celebrate his conquering of Venice. This print is from a series of twelve "Ducal Ceremonies and Festivals" (Le Feste Ducali).

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Object Information
  • Title: Plate 5: The Doge in the Bucintoro Departing for the Porto di Lido on Ascension Day, from 'Ducal Ceremonies and Festivals' (Le Feste Ducali)
  • Series/Portfolio: 'Ducal Ceremonies and Festivals' (Le Feste Ducali)
  • Artist: Giovanni Battista Brustolon (Italian, Venice 1712–1796 Venice)
  • Artist: After Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice)
  • Publisher: Lodovico Furlanetto (Italian, active Venice, 1766–1777)
  • Date: ca. 1766
  • Medium: Etching and engraving; second state of four
  • Dimensions: Plate: 17 3/4 × 22 3/8 in. (45.1 × 56.9 cm)
    Sheet: 21 3/16 × 27 1/2 in. (53.8 × 69.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961
  • Object Number: 61.532.5
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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