- Marco Polo
Marco Polo (September 15 1254 - January 9 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325) was a Venetian trader and explorer who gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorded in the book "Il Milione" ("The Million" or "The Travels of Marco Polo"). Polo, together with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo, was one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China (which was then called "Cathay") and visit the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, … - Tintoretto
Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin; September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. In his youth he was also called Jacopo Robusti, as his father had defended the gates of Padua in a rather robust way against the imperial troops. His real name 'Comin' has only recently been discovered by Miguel Falomir, the curator of the Prado, … - Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (Venice, Republic of Venice, October 28, 1697 - April 19, 1768), better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or "vedute" of Venice. He was also a significant printmaker in etching. - Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" ("The Red Priest"), was an Italian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous violinist; he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. "The Four Seasons", a series of four violin concertos, are his best known works and highly popular Baroque music pieces. - Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats, intimidation, and even aggression to conquer women, sometimes leaving behind children or debt. His autobiography, "Histoire de ma vie" ("Story of My Life"), … - Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 - 6 February 1793) was a celebrated Venetian playwright, whom critics today rank among the European theatre's greatest authors. His works, along with those of the modernist Luigi Pirandello, include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni, one of Venice's most internationally recognized writers, for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. - Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa (June 2, 1906 - 1978), was an Italian designer with a profound understanding of materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture -- in particular its tradition of painting. He was born in Venice. Scarpa spent his early childhood in Vicenza. After his mother's death, at the age of 13, he, his father and brother moved back to Venice. Carlo attended the Academy of Fine Arts where, after two years, he focused on architectural studies. - Paolo Sarpi
Paolo Sarpi (often known simply as Fra Paolo) (August 14, 1552 - January 15, 1623) was a Venetian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer and author of the "History of the Council of Trent". - Enrico Dandolo
Enrico Dandolo (also anglicised Henry Dandolo or in Latin Henricus Dandulus, 1107? - 1205) was the Doge of the city-state of Venice from 1192 until his death. He is remembered primarily for his role in the Fourth Crusade which ultimately conquered Constantinople and ended (for a time) the Byzantine Empire. - Antonio da Ponte
Antonio da Ponte (1512-1595) (born in Venice) was a Swiss architect & engineer most famous for his rebuilding the Rialto Bridge in Venice. Although, Antonio da Ponte was undoubtedly the builder of many previous structures, but his earlier works are entirely unknown. After the original wooden structure had collapsed repeatedly, his design was selected in a contest held by the local authorities under Doge of Venice Pasqual Cicogna. - Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto (c.1480 - 1556) was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance, he already constitutes, through his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions, a transitional stage to the first Florentine and Roman Mannerists of the 16th century. - Massimo Cacciari
Massimo Cacciari (born June 5, 1944) is an Italian philosopher and politician, currently mayor of Venice, Italy. - Gentile Bellini
Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 - february 23 1507) was an Italian painter. Born in Venice, the son of the painter Jacopo Bellini, he was christened Gentile after Jacopo's master, Gentile da Fabriano. From 1474 he was the official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice. Much of Gentile Bellini's surviving work consists of very large paintings for public buildings, including those for the Scuola Grande di San Marco (1470s), painted in conjunction with his brother, … - Daniele Manin
Daniele Manin (May 13, 1804 - September 22, 1857) was an Venetian patriot and statesman. He is regarded as one of the heroes of Italian unification ("Risorgimento") - Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1485, Venice - June 21,1547, Rome), byname of Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter of the early 16th century famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school. - Pietro Bembo
Pietro Bembo (May 20, 1470 - 18 January, 1547), Italian cardinal and scholar. He was born in Venice and while still a boy he accompanied his father to Florence, and there acquired a love for that Tuscan form of speech which he afterwards cultivated in preference to the language of his native city. Having completed his studies, which included two years' devotion to Greek under Lascaris at Messina, he chose the ecclesiastical profession. - Baldassarre Longhena
Baldassare Longhena (1598 - February 18 1682), was a 17th century architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period. - Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 - August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms. - Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot (c. 1484 - 1557, or soon after), originally Sebastiano Caboto, was an Italian explorer, born probably in Venice. Sebastian Cabot told Englishman Richard Eden that he was born in Bristol and carried to Venice at four years of age. However, he also told Gasparo Contarini, the Venetian ambassador at the court of Charles V that he was Venetian, educated in England. Contarini noted it in his diary. - Palma Il Giovane
Palma il Giovane, Italian for Palma the Younger, is the common nickname of the Italian painter Jacopo Palma il Giovane (1544-1628), used to distinguished him from his more reputed granduncle Palma il Vecchio. He was born Jacopo Negretti in Venice, and his first known works date from c. 1565. He was influenced by Raphael and Tintoretto, and executed copies of Titian, with whom he later collaborated. - Francesco Guardi
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (October 5, 1712 - January 1, 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting. - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770) was a Italian painter and printmaker, considered among the last "Grand Manner" fresco painters from the Venetian republic. - Pietro Longhi
Pietro Longhi (November 5, 1701 - May 8, 1785) was a Venetian painter of contemporary scenes of life. - Jacopo De' Barbari
Jacopo de' Barbari, sometimes known or referred to as: de'Barbari, de Barberi, de Barbari, Barbaro, Barberino, Barbarigo or Barberigo etc., (c. 1440 – before 1516) was an Italian painter and printmaker with a highly individual style. He moved from Venice to Germany in 1500, making him the first Italian Renaissance artist of stature to work in Northern Europe. - Bernardo Bellotto
Bernardo Bellotto was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching. He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto, and sometimes also used the latter's illustrious name, thus signing as Bernardo Canaletto – illegally according to some. Especially in Germany, paintings described as by Canaletto may be his rather than his uncle's. His style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural or natural vistas, … - Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera (October 7, 1675 - April 15, 1757) was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. She later became known for her pastel work, a medium appealing to Rococo styles for its soft edges and flowery touches - Carlo Gozzi
Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 - April 4, 1806), was an Italian dramatist. - Dosso Dossi
Dosso Dossi, real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting. - Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a poet and courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice. - Jacopo Bellini
Jacopo Bellini (c. 1396 - c. 1470) was an Italian painter. Jacopo was one of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and northern Italy. His sons Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, and his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna, were also famous painters. - Gasparo Contarini
Gasparo Contarini (October 16, 1483 - August 24, 1542) was an Italian diplomat and cardinal. He was born in Venice. After a thorough scientific and philosophical training, he began his career in the service of his native city. In 1521 he was the Republic's ambassador to Charles V. He accompanied Charles to Spain; later, after the Sack of Rome, he assisted in reconciling the emperor and Clement VII, also the emperor and the Republic of Bologna. - Emilio Vedova
Emilio Vedova was an Italian modern painter, considered one of the most important to emerge in his country's artistic scene after World War II. Vedova was born in Venice into a working-class family. After an initial formative experience within Expressionism, he joined the group "Corrente" (1942-43), which included other artists such as Renato Guttuso and Renato Birolli. He participated in the Resistenza and played a key role in the post-war Italian art movement, … - Vettor Pisani
Vettor Pisani was a Venetian admiral. He was in command of the Venetian fleet in 1378 during the war against the Genoese, whom he defeated off Capo d'Anzio; subsequently he recaptured Kotor, Šibenik and Rab, which had been seized by the Croatians and Hungarians, the allies of the Genoese. But the Genoese fleet completely defeated Pisani at Pula in May 1379, and on his return to Venice he was thrown into prison. - Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara (1670 or 1671 - December 26, 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer. Caldara was born in Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's Cathedral also in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi. In 1699 he relocated to Mantua, where he became "maestro di cappella" to the Duke. He remained there until 1707, then moved on to Rome, … - Ermolao Barbaro
Ermolao Barbaro or Barbarus (May 21, 1454-June 14, 1493 or 1495) was an Italian Renaissance scholar. - Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (June 8, 1671, Venice, Republic of Venice - January 17, 1751, Venice, Republic of Venice) was a Venetian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, some of which is regularly recorded. The "Adagio in G minor" attributed to him (actually a later reconstruction) is one of the most frequently recorded pieces of Baroque music. - Baldassarre Galuppi
Baldassarre Galuppi (October 18, 1706 - January 3, 1785) was an Italian composer from Venice, noted for his operas, and particularly opera buffa. He was born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Lagoon, as a result of which he became known as "Il Buranello". His first attempt at opera, "La fede nell'incostanza ossia gli amici rivali" (1722) was a spectacular failure, being hissed off the stage. He subsequently studied music with Antonio Lotti, and, … - Sebastiano Venier
Sebastiano Venier or Veniero (ca 1496 - March 3, 1578) was Doge of Venice from June 11, 1577 to March 3, 1578. - Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna (april 21 1920 - november 13 1973) was an Italian-German conductor and composer. - Hugo Pratt
Hugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who combined his strong storytelling talent with extensive historical research on Corto Maltese and his other series. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.
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