Tomb of Andrea Vendramin in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice Andrea Vendramin (1393 – May 5, 1478, both

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) served as

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, 1476–78, at the height of Venetian power, the only member of the Vendramin family to do so. His mother, Maria Michiel, and his wife Regina Gradenigo, both came from Dogal families. He had served as Venetian

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in Rome, and his brief reign was largely concerned with the end of the Second Turkish–Venetian War. He probably died of

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. The process of his election as Doge resulted in a divisive split in the Council, that resulted in bad feelings: in 1477 Antonio Feleto was imprisoned, then banished, for remarking in public that the Council of the Forty-One must have been hard-pressed to elect a cheesemonger Doge. The diarist Malipiero noted that Andrea Vendramin at the time of his election was worth 160,000 ducats, after allowing for 6 to 7000

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with which he had endowed each of six daughters, in order to procure politically influential sons-in-law. In his youth, he and his brother Luca, in

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s, used to ship from

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enough goods to fill a galley or a galley and a half, Malipiero recorded in retrospect: even his factors grew rich managing his affairs. He has a large monumental wall-tomb, generally agreed to be "the most lavish

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of Renaissance Venice", in the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, the usual burial-place of Doges, which was executed by

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(1493), though

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competed for the commission.A Verocchio drawing for the scheme (Victoria and Albert Museum) was included in the exhibition "Renaissance Florence: the Art of the 1470s", National Gallery, London, illustrated in ''The Burlington Magazine'', 142 No. 1162 (January 2000:47 fig. 65.) It was originally intended for the church of

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. However the portrait in the

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, inscribed with his name, is now considered to be of his successor, Doge

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. He was interred in the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges. After Andrea's death, his widow married his brother, Luca.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vendramin, Andrea 1393 births 1478 deaths 15th-century deaths from plague (disease) Andrea Republic of Venice people of the Ottoman–Venetian Wars 15th-century Doges of Venice Burials at Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice