FAH341H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Financial Centre, Rialto Bridge, Confraternity
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* = brief description; (see corresponding slide on fadis) Venice as free and just republic, inspiration for ducal palace. Space intended for nobility to come and meet, gossip, debate, negotiation. Sometimes non-nobility would go there but it was pretty discouraged. *venice represented as justice, on central arch of the leggett in venice. Image of justice sitting on throne of st. mark. Her dominion is the water, subjects squashed underneath are the conquered. At this time it was by large a maritime empire. 100 years later it was becoming also a land based empire, in mid/late 15th c. *corner of ducal palace - judgement of solomon group view. Iconic justice image, meant to be read as venice as a republic exercises its power with the wisdom of solomon. Gure, didn"t have absolute power like other princes around italy. Quote from nobleman to doge, 1521 (on slide). True it was run by rich nobility, but the power was shared.
