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{{Short description, none The list of things named Venetian is quite extensive. Venetian generally describes anything from or related to the Italian city of
Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400  ...
, or the
Veneto Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...
region (of which Venice is the capital), or of the
Republic of Venice The Republic of Venice ( vec, Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic ( vec, Repùblega Vèneta, links=no), traditionally known as La Serenissima ( en, Most Serene Republic of Venice, italics=yes; vec, Serenìsima Repùblega de Venèsia ...
(697–1797), a historical nation in that area. The term may also refer to the
Venetian language Venetian, wider Venetian or Venetan ( or ) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy,Ethnologue mostly in the Veneto region, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and ofte ...
, a
Romance language The Romance languages, sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language ...
spoken mostly in the Veneto region. The term Venetian may also mean from or related to the American city of Venice, Florida, in
Sarasota County Sarasota County is a county located in Southwest Florida. At the 2020 US census, the population was 434,006. Its county seat is Sarasota and its largest city is North Port. Sarasota County is part of the North Port–Sarasota–Bradenton, FL ...
. There are many concept names that use the term "Venetian" in those general senses, such as Venetian cuisine, Venetian music, Venetian grammar, etc. There are however many concepts where "Venetian" has a special sense that cannot be deduced form the general ones. There are also many people, buildings, and works of art with "Venetian" in their name.


Special senses


History

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Venetian Albania Venetian Albania ( vec, Albania vèneta, it, Albania Veneta, Serbian language, Serbian and Montenegrin language, Montenegrin: Млетачка Албанија / ''Mletačka Albanija'', ) was the official term for several possessions of the Repub ...
(1392–1797), dominion of the Republic of Venice in present south Montenegro and north Albania *Venetian Crete, the Kingdom of Candia (1212–1669), a colony of the Republic of Venice * Venetian Crusade (1122–1124) by the Republic of Venice to the Holy Land *
Venetian Dalmatia Venetian Dalmatia ( la, Dalmatia Veneta) refers to parts of Dalmatia under the rule of the Republic of Venice, mainly from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Dalmatia was first sold to Venice in 1409 but Venetian Dalmatia was not fully consolidated ...
(1400–1797), dominion of the Republic of Venice in present Croatia *Venetian ducat, a gold
ducat The ducat () coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages from the 13th to 19th centuries. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing around of 98.6% fine gold, originated in Venice in 1284 and gained ...
coin issued by the Republic of Venice from 1284 to 1797 * Venetian grosso, a silver coin minted by the Republic of Venice in 1193 * Venetian Interdict, a Papal decree placing sanctions on the Republic of Venice in 1605–1607 *
Venetian lira The lira (plural ''lire'') was the distinct currency of Venice until 1848, when it was replaced by the Italian lira. It originated from the Carolingian monetary system used in much of Western Europe since the 8th century CE, with the ''lira'' subd ...
, a currency of the Republic of Venice issued from 953 to 1807 * Venetian rule in the Ionian Islands (1361–1797), by the Republic of Venice *
Venetian Province The Venetian Province ( vec, Provinsa Veneta, german: Provinz Venedig) was the name of the territory of the former Republic of Venice ceded by the French First Republic to the Habsburg monarchy under the terms of the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio t ...
, a historical province (1797–1815), the former territory of the Republic of Venice *Venetian rule or Venetocracy (''Βενετοκρατία'', ''Venetokratia''), the period of Venetian rule in Greece (1212–1669); see
Frankokratia The ''Frankokratia'' ( el, Φραγκοκρατία, la, Francocratia, sometimes anglicized as Francocracy, "rule of the Franks"), also known as ''Latinokratia'' ( el, Λατινοκρατία, la, Latinocratia, "rule of the Latins") a ...


Geography

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Venetian Ghetto The Venetian Ghetto was the area of Venice in which Jews were forced to live by the government of the Venetian Republic. The English word '' ghetto'' is derived from the Jewish ghetto in Venice. The Venetian Ghetto was instituted on 29 March ...
, the Venice borough where Jews were segregated in 1516; origin of word "ghetto" *
Venetian Hills Venetian Hills is an official neighborhood in southwest Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its 2010 population was 3,790. It is bordered: * on the north by Cascade Avenue/Road SW, Avon Avenue SW, and the Bush Mountain neighborhood * on the n ...
, a neighborhood in southwest Atlanta (GA), USA. *Venetian islands, in the Venetian Lagoon south of Venice *
Venetian Islands, Florida The Venetian Islands are a chain of artificial islands in Biscayne Bay in the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, Florida. The islands are, from west to east: Biscayne Island (Miami), San Marco Island (Miami), San Marino Island (Miami Beach), Di ...
(USA), artificial islands between Miami and Miami Beach *
Venetian Isles, New Orleans Venetian Isles () is a neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located on the western shore of the Chef Menteur Pass on the northern side of U.S. Highway 90. Legally a part of the city, Venetian Isles is separated from the bulk of the devel ...
(''Îles Vénetiennes''), a neighborhood of the city in Louisiana, USA * Venetian Lagoon, the shallow bay on the south side of Venice * Venetian Plain, the flatlands in the Veneto and Friuli regions of Italy *Venetian Slavia or '' Slavia Friulana'', a Slovenian-speaking enclave in the Friuli region of Italy * Venetian Village, Illinois, a census division in Lake County (IL), USA; about 2900 hab in 2010


Styles of arts and crafts

* Venetian glass, artistic glass objects from the island of Murano in Venice's bay *
Venetian Gothic architecture Venetian Gothic is the particular form of Italian Gothic architecture typical of Venice, originating in local building requirements, with some influence from Byzantine architecture, and some from Islamic architecture, reflecting Venice's tradin ...
, a building style developed in Venice in the 1300s *Venetian needle lace, also Venetian point or point de Venise, a type of lace with floral motifs, popular in the 1600s * Venetian painting, a major tradition in Italian Renaissance painting * Venetian polychoral style, a style of choral music from the Baroque and Renaissance * Venetian Renaissance, a period in Venetian history that covered the 15th and 16th centuries * Venetian Renaissance architecture, a style of buildings originated in Venice around 1480 *
Venetian school (art) Venetian painting was a major force in Italian Renaissance painting and beyond. Beginning with the work of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) and his brother Gentile Bellini (c. 1429–1507) and their workshops, the major artists of the Venetia ...
, a style of painting starting in the 1400s * Venetian School (music), style and composers in Venice from 1550 to 1610


Objects and products


Architecture and furniture

* Venetian arch, a usually pointed arch with a band wider at the peak than at the spring *Venetian blind, or Venetian, a common type of window blind similar to Persian blind *Venetian curtain, a type of theater front curtain *Venetian dentil, an architectural ornament; a type of dentil * Venetian door, a door with narrow sidelights, like a Venetian window * Venetian carpet, a type of inexpensive carpet * Venetian window, a type of window with arched top flanked by two narrow sidelights


Utensils, materials, plants

* Venetian ball, a ball of glass with enclosed objects, often used as paperweight *Venetian blind shades or shutter shades, sunglasses with horizontal slats instead of lenses * Venetian chalk, a white compact talc or steatite used especially for marking on cloth *Venetian mask, a special variety traditionally worn in the Carnival of Venice *Venetian plaster, a type of polished plaster including marble dust *Venetian pearl, an imitation pearl made of solid glass *
Venetian-style shoe Venetian-style shoes or Venetian-style loafers are mid-heel slippers with an upper or top part that is slightly open to the kick of the foot and the ankle bone. The venetian-style shoe and its lack of ornamentation contrasts with the loafer whi ...
, or Venetian loafer, a plain mid-heel slipper * Venetian soap, made with olive oil *Venetian sumac or
smoke tree Smoke tree, or Smoketree, may refer to any of several plants, some of whose parts are finely divided and give the appearance of smoke from a distance: * ''Cotinus'', a genus of garden shrub commonly referred to as the Smoketree. ** ''Cotinus cog ...
('' Cotinus abovatus'') * Venetian swell, a swell organ with blinds patterned closing the swell box


Colors, pigments, and varnishes

*Venetian blue, same as
cobalt blue Cobalt blue is a blue pigment made by sintering cobalt(II) oxide with aluminum(III) oxide (alumina) at 1200 °C. Chemically, cobalt blue pigment is cobalt(II) oxide-aluminium oxide, or cobalt(II) aluminate, CoAl2O4. Cobalt blue is lighter ...
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Venetian ceruse Venetian ceruse, also known as ''blanc de ceruse de Venise'' and Spirits of Saturn, was a 16th-century cosmetic used as a skin whitener. It was in great demand and considered the best available at the time, supposedly containing the best qualit ...
, a lead-based white cosmetic face paint used in the 1600s and 1700s * Venetian green, a bluish dark green color *Venetian lake, a red painter's pigment or shade or
carmine (color) Carmine color is the general term for some deep red colors that are ''very slightly'' purplish but are generally ''slightly'' closer to red than the color crimson is. Some rubies are colored the color shown below as ''rich carmine''. The de ...
* Venetian red, a painter's pigment * Venetian rose, a shade of pink * Venetian scarlet, a shade of red * Venetian turpentine or Venice turpentine, an artists' varnish from larch ('' Larix decidua'') resin * Venetian white, a painter's pigment, mix of lead white and barium sulfate * Venetian yellow or amber yellow, a shade of yellowMeriam-Webster: Venetian yellow
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Other

*Venetian Carnival, or the Carnival of Venice, a traditional festivity since the 12th century * Venetian Festival, any modern costume festivity inspired on the historic carnival of Venice :*
Hythe Venetian Fete The Hythe Venetian Fete is a traditional "floating tableaux" (water carnival) that dates and derives back to the 1860s Hythe Cricket Week. It takes place on the third Wednesday in August, every two years, on the Royal Military Canal at Hythe in K ...
, a traditional carnival of Kent, England *Venetian Mafia, called '' Mala del Brenta'', a criminal organization in Veneto


In titles and names


Buildings and structures

*Venetian Arena, former name (2008–2010) of the Cotai Arena in Macao, China. *
Venetian arsenal, Gouvia The Venetian arsenal at Gouvia was a shipyard built by the Republic of Venice during their rule over the island of Corfu. It was located on the west side of what used to be called "Govino Bay", the current location of the modern village of Gouvi ...
, built by the Republic of Venice in Corfu (Greece) 1400s or 1500s * Venetian Bay Resort, a development and resort in Kissimmee (FL), USA * Venetian Causeway, a bridge connecting Miami Beach to mainland Miami (FL), USA * Venetian Court, a seaside resort in Capitola (CA), USA * Venetian Garden, Leesburg, a park in Lake County (FL), USA * Venetian Golf and River Club, in North Venice (FL), USA * Venetian House (Sighișoara), a building from the 1500s in Sighișoara, Romania *
The Venetian Las Vegas The Venetian Las Vegas is a luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, on the site of the old Sands Hotel. Designed by KlingStubbins, the hotel tower contains 36 stories and rises . The Venet ...
, a resort hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada *
The Venetian Macao The Venetian Macao () is a hotel and casino resort in Macau owned by the American Las Vegas Sands company. The 39-story structure on Macau's Cotai Strip has of floor space, and is modeled on its sister casino resort The Venetian Las Vegas. ...
, a hotel and casino in Macau, China * Venetian Pool, a historic public swimming pool built in 1924 in Coral Gables (FL), USA *
Disney's Venetian Resort Disney's Venetian Resort was to be a Disney-owned resort at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, that originally would have begun operation on October 1, 1971. It was going to be themed after Venice, Italy, located on Seven Seas Lag ...
, a project of the late 1960s for Disney World (FL, USA) that was never built. * Venetian Theatre, a former theater in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA *The Venetian Theater, a building in the
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is a former estate near Katonah, New York United States, approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City. Today it serves as a live music venue for symphonic, opera, chamber, American roots, a ...
, near Katonah, New York USA * Venetian Village, Naples, Florida, a waterside shopping district in USA *
Venetian Waterway Park The Venetian Waterway Park is a concrete trail in Sarasota County, Florida located in Venice. It was a public–private partnership between Venice Area Beautification Inc. (VABI), Sarasota County, and the city of Venice. It consists of two t ...
, a 9.3 mile scenic bike path built ca. 2002 in Sarasota County, near Venice (FL), USA


Books and plays

* ''The Anonymous Venetian'' (novel), a book by Donna Leon *''The Venetian'', or ''The Venetian Woman'', or ''The Venetian Comedy'', originally ''La veniexiana'' (play), comedy play in Venetian language, 1535–1537 * ''The Venetian Affair'' (novel), 1963 novel by Scottish-American author Helen MacInnes * '' The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers Nicolò and Antonio Zeno to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century'', account of the travels of the Zeno brothers , edited by R. H. Major, 1873Richard Henry Major (1873):
The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas, in the XIVth Century, comprising The Latest Known Accounts of the Lost Colony of Greenland; and of the Northmen in America before Columbus
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Venetian Masque ''Venetian Masque'' is a 1934 adventure novel written by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. It is set in the 1790s, around the time of the invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte which led to the fall of the Republic of Venice. The hero is the Vic ...
'', a 1935 English adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini *'' The Venetian Nights'' (''Les noces vénitiennes''), a 1924 novel by Abel Hermant published by Ferenczi *''
The Venetian Twins ''The Venetian Twins'' ( it, I due gemelli veneziani, links=no, or "The two Venetian twins") is a 1747 play by Carlo Goldoni, based on Plautus's ''Menaechmi''. It was performed by Il Teatro Stabile of Genoa at the 1965 Edinburgh Internationa ...
'' (''I due gemelli veneziani''), a 1747 theater play by Goldoni * ''The Venetian Twins'' (musical), a 1979 Australian musical comedy play by Enright and Clarke *''The Venetians'', 1892 novel by
Mary Elizabeth Braddon Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel ''Lady Audley's Secret'', which has also been dramatised and filmed several times ...


Movies

* ''The Anonymous Venetian'' (film) (''Anonimo veneziano''), a 1970 Italian drama by Enrico Maria Salerno *'' A Holy Venetian Family'' (''Leoni''), a 2015 Italian comedy movie by Pietro Parolin * ''The Venetian'' (film) (''Venetianskan''), a 1958 TV movie directed by Ingmar Bergman * ''The Venetian Affair'' (film), 1967 American movie *'' Venetian Bird'', a 1952 British thriller movie directed by Ralph Thomas *'' Venetian Honeymoon'' (''La prima notte'', ''Les noces vénitiennes''), 1959 Italian-French comedy movie by Cavalcanti *'' Venetian Lovers'', 1925 British silent film by Niebuhr and Tilley *''
Venetian Nights ''Venetian Nights'' (French: ''Nuits de Venise'') is a 1931 German French-language operetta film directed by Pierre Billon and Robert Wiene and starring Janine Guise, Germaine Noizet and Roger Tréville. It was an alternative-language versi ...
'' (''Nuits de Venise''), a 1931 German operetta movie by Billon and Wiene *'' The Venetian Woman'' (''La venexiana''), 1986 Italian erotic film by Mauro Bolognini


Paintings

*'' Portrait of a Venetian'' by Tintoretto, ca. 1550 *'' Portrait of a Venetian Admiral'' by Tintoretto, 1570s *'' Self-Portrait as Venetian Ambassador'', by Bernardo Bellotto, 1765 *'' Pavel Sorokoumskiy as Venetian Doge'', unknown painter, late 1800s *'' The Venetian Girl'' by Frank Duvenek, ca. 1880 *'' Head of a Venetian Girl'' by Giorgione, 1509 *'' A Venetian Lady from the House of Barbarigo'' by
Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium in eight ...
, 1735–1740 *'' Portrait of a Venetian Man'' by Jan van Scorel, ca. 1520 *'' Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman'' by
Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradit ...
, 1620s *'' Venetian Nobleman'' by Tintoretto, 1590s *'' Portrait of the Venetian Painter Giovanni Bellini'' by Tizian, 1511–1512 *'' Portrait of a Venetian Senator'', by
Tintoretto Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed wit ...
, ca. 1570 *'' The Venetian Shoe Black'' (''Lustrascarpe veneziano''), tinted photo by
Carlo Ponti Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 9 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cine ...
, 1867 * ''Portrait of a Venetian Woman'', by
Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as '' The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''T ...
, late 1500s *''Portrait of a Venetian Woman'', or '' Madonna delle rose'', by Tintoretto, 1597–1600 *'' Portrait of a Venetian Woman'', a 1505 painting by
Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...
*''Portrait of a Venetian Woman'', or '' La Belle Nani'', by
Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as '' The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''T ...


People and spirits

*Venetian Chohan, or Paul the Venetian, an entity in the teachings of Theosophy * The Reliable Venetian Hand, an anonymous art collector from the 1700s * VenetianPrincess, pseudonym of Jodie-Amy Rivera (1984–), American internet video personality *
Venetian Snares Aaron Funk (born January 11, 1975), known as Venetian Snares, is a Canadian electronic musician based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is widely known for innovating and popularising the breakcore genre, and is one of the most recognisable artists to ...
, stage name of Aaron Funk (1975–), Canadian electronic musician * The Venetians (Australian band), a mid-1980s pop music band


Political parties and movements

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Venetian nationalism Venetian nationalism (also Venetism, from the Venetian/Italian name, ''venetismo'') is a nationalist, but primarily regionalist, political movement active mostly in Veneto, Italy, as well as in other parts of the former Republic of Venice. ...
, a political movement *
Party of the Venetians The Party of Venetians ( it, Partito dei Veneti, PdV) was a Venetist-separatist coalition of parties active in Veneto. The alliance, which was formed in January 2010, after the disbandment of Veneto Freedom, was composed of five groups, which ...
(''Partito dei Veneti'', PdV), an ephemeral party (Jan–Sep 2010) * Venetian Agreement (''Intesa Veneta''), a party (2006–) *Venetian League or ''
Liga Veneta Liga Veneta ( vec, Łiga Vèneta; en, Venetian League; abbr. LV), whose complete name is ( en, Venetian League for Salvini Premier), is a regionalist political party active in Veneto. The LV, whose ideology combines Venetian nationalism and ...
'', ''Łiga Vèneta'', a party (1979–) * Venetian Left (2013) (''Sanca Veneta'', SV), a party (2013–) * Venetian National Liberation Movement (''Movimento di Liberazione Nazionale del Popolo Veneto'', MNLV), an independence movement (2009–) * Venetian National Party (''Partito Nasional Veneto'', PNV), a former party (2007–2011) * Venetian People's Unity (''Unitá Popolare Veneta'', UPV), a party (2008–) * Venetian People's Movement (''Movimento Popolare Veneto'', MPV), a former party (2008–2015?) * Union of the Venetian People (''Unione del Popolo Veneziano'', UPV), a former party (1995–1999)


Other

* Venetian Arts Society, a not-for-profit organization in Fort Lauderdale (FL), USA * Penny Venetian Red, a British postage stamp issued in 1880–1881 *
Venetian Way Venetian Way (March 23, 1957 – October 17, 1964) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1960 Kentucky Derby. Background Venetian Way was a chestnut horse bred in Kentucky by John W. Greathouse. He was purchased by ...
(1957–1964), a racehorse, winner of the 1960 Kentucky derby


See also

* Friulan and Giulian, related to or from
Friuli Venezia Giulia (man), it, Friulana (woman), it, Giuliano (man), it, Giuliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_t ...
region of Italy * Venice (disambiguation) * Veneti (disambiguation) * Venetia (disambiguation)


References

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