Condulmer family

Condulmer (top) and Canal [it] coats of arms, celebrating a marriage between the two families

The Condulmer were a Venetian family originally from Pavia.[1] Originally wealthy commoners, the different branches of the family were only slowly admitted to the Venetian nobility. Marco Condulmer, a bread merchant, is recorded in 1297.[2] In 1381, Jacopo Condulmer of the Domenico branch was ennobled for his contributions to the treasury during the War of Chioggia in 1379.[2][3] The Fernovelli branch was ennobled with the election of one of its own, Gabriele, as Pope Eugene IV in 1431.[2] Still, in 1528, Zuan Francesco Condulmer had his name crossed out in the Libro d'Oro for his failure to prove his nobility.[4] A third branch of the family, the Angelo, was ennobled only at the time of the Cretan War (1645–1669).[2]

Notable members

The Palazzo Condulmer in Venice

See also

References

  1. ^ Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), p. 258, has a family tree.
  2. ^ a b c d Pietro Bosmin, "Condulmer", Enciclopedia Italiana (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1931).
  3. ^ Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 176–177.
  4. ^ Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 10–11 (with image of the Libro).
  5. ^ Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), p. 209.
  6. ^ Angelo Baiocchi (1982). "Condulmer, Antonio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 27: Collenuccio–Confortini (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
  7. ^ Monika Schmitter, "The Quadro da Portego in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Art", Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 3 (2011), pp. 693–751. doi:10.1086/662848
  8. ^ Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 173–176.
  9. ^ Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 128–129 (with an image of his commission bound in tooled gilt leather).

Further reading

  • Stahl, Alan M. The House of Condulmer: The Rise and Decline of a Venetian Family in the Century of the Black Death. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.