Marco Polo

Marco Polo

male, deceased (1324)
silk road, explorer, Cathay, Adventurer, Exploration, Italian…venetian
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...
Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

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

Giovanni Bellini

male, deceased (1516)
painter, Italian, Venetian painter, Renaissance painter, titian, venetian
Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo...
Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Goldoni

male, deceased (1793)
Venetian language, Republic of Venice, venetian, Commedia dell'arte, Opera librettist, Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 - 6 February 1793) was a celebrated Venetian playwright, whom critics today rank among the European...
Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

male, deceased (1798)
librarian, Gian Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, Italian writer in French, Escapees, memoirist…venetian
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr...
Titian

Titian

male, deceased (1576)
painter, Da Cadore, Tiziano Vecelli, from the Province of Belluno, Pieve di Cadore, Italian Renaissance…Venetian painter, venetian
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1485 - August 27, 1576), better known as Titian, was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of...
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

male, deceased (1770)
painter, Baroque painter, Venetian Republic, Italian, Rococo painter, printmaker…Venetian painter, venetian
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770) was a Italian painter and...
Francesco Guardi

Francesco Guardi

male, deceased (1793)
painter, Landscape artist, Italian, venetian, Venetian painter, From Venice
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (October 5, 1712 - January 1, 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta. He is considered to be among the last practitioners,...
Paolo Sarpi

Paolo Sarpi

male, deceased (1623)
From Venice, venetian, augustinian, Italian, Council of Trent, writer
Paolo Sarpi (often known simply as Fra Paolo) (August 14, 1552 - January 15, 1623) was a Venetian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer...
Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

male, deceased (1825)
Deputy to the French National Convention, buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, neoclassical, History artist, venetian, French Revolution
Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the...