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Titian had already painted emperors, kings, doges and popes.
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Washington Post, 20 July 2023
This, the former home of a 14th-century doge (plus two more modern annexes), is the Venetian grande dame par excellence.
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Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
Having changed hands over the centuries, this grande dame belonged to the Pisani family before becoming the private home of the doge of Venice, Andrea Gritti, in 1525.
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Tanvi Chheda, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
Italians have been ruled by Caligula, Mussolini, Berlusconi, and all sorts of princes, popes, and doges.
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Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
The former private apartments of the doge—the supreme authority of the Venetian republic—now host rotating art exhibtions.
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Dagmar Schwell, National Geographic, 8 May 2019
Today the doge still keeps a watchful eye from his portrait (a vintage copy of a Titian original) in a ground floor salon.
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Jean Bond Rafferty, Town & Country, 17 Dec. 2012
The Italian hotel group that recast and refurbished the Renaissance-era interiors of the palazzo (even installing air conditioning) named it after its most prominent owners, the descendants of Andrea Gritti, a doge of Venice in the 16th century.
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Jean Bond Rafferty, Town & Country, 17 Dec. 2012
Between this island and its nearest neighbor, a cathedral that housed the graves of two of Venice’s doges once stood.
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Patrick Rogers, Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2018
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“Doge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doge. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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doge
noun
: the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa
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