Condulmer (top) andCanal [it] coats of arms, celebrating a marriage between the two families
TheCondulmer were aVenetian family originally fromPavia.[1] Originally wealthy commoners, the different branches of the family were only slowly admitted to theVenetian 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 theWar of Chioggia in 1379.[2][3] The Fernovelli branch was ennobled with the election of one of its own, Gabriele, asPope Eugene IV in 1431.[2] Still, in 1528, Zuan Francesco Condulmer had his name crossed out in theLibro 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 theCretan War (1645–1669).[2]
^Patricia Fortini Brown,Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), p. 258, has a family tree.
^Patricia Fortini Brown,Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 176–177.
^Patricia Fortini Brown,Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 10–11 (with image of theLibro).
^Patricia Fortini Brown,Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), p. 209.
^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
^Patricia Fortini Brown,Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 173–176.
^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).
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.
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