Marco Polo

Marco Polo

male, deceased (1324)
silk road, explorer, Cathay, Adventurer, Exploration, Italian…From Venice, RepublicofVenice, Explorer of Asia, The Travels of 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...
Canaletto

Canaletto

male, deceased (1768)
painter, printmaker, etcher, engraver, Italian, Venetian painter…From Venice, RepublicofVenice
Giovanni Antonio Canal (Venice, Republic of Venice, October 28, 1697 - April 19, 1768), better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for...
Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio

male, deceased (1580)
Palladian Architecture, Bartolomeo Cavazza, classic architecture, vicenza, greek goddess, roman…Palladian Villas of the Veneto, A History of Western Architecture, RepublicofVenice, League of Cambrai
Andrea Palladio, was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history of Western architecture. He was born Andrea...
Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

male, deceased (1741) (Seattle, Washington, United States)
The Four Seasons, venetian, Classical violinist, Italian, composer, Baroque composer…From Venice, RepublicofVenice
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" ("The Red Priest"), was an Italian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous...
Enrico Dandolo

Enrico Dandolo

male, deceased (1205)
doge, Henricus Dandulus, Doges of Venice, Fourth Crusade, anglicised, RepublicofVenice…From Venice, Doge of Venice
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...
El Greco

El Greco

male, deceased (1614)
Greek-Spaniard, greek alphabet, From crete, RepublicofVenice, Mannerism, Toledo, Spain
El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name,...
Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Goldoni

male, deceased (1793)
Venetian language, RepublicofVenice, venetian, Commedia dell'arte, Opera librettist, Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni…From Venice, Founder of Italian comedy
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 - 6 February 1793) was a celebrated Venetian playwright, whom critics today rank among the European...
Andrea Gritti

Andrea Gritti

male, deceased (1538)
Bardolino, Nicolo di Pitigliano, from the Province of Verona, Doge of Venice, Charles V, padua…RepublicofVenice, Doges of Venice, Battle of Agnadello, League of Cambrai, Council of Ten
Andrea Gritti (1455 - 1538) was the Doge of Venice from 1523 to 1538, following a distinguished diplomatic and military career. Gritti was born in...
Ali Pasha

Ali Pasha

male
Kaptan-ı Derya, Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, Lala Mustafa Pasha, Juan de Austria, ottoman admiral, seraglio…RepublicofVenice, battle of lepanto
Ali Pasha, was an Ottoman official and general and finally grand admiral ("Kaptan-ı Derya") of the Ottoman Mediterranean fleet from 1569 to 1571, s...
Bayezid II

Bayezid II

male, deceased (1512)
Dimetoka, trabzon, Greek Turkish, greek, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, morea…Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, RepublicofVenice
Bayezid II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. Bayezid II was born in Dimetoka (now Didymoteicho) in Thrace as the son of...