| A visit into the noble palazzo Mocenigo and its textiles and costumes museum will be next: the right place to breath the sophisticated ambiance of the family that gave six doges to the Most Serene Republic. |
| Mocenigo Family, one of the most renowned patrician families of the Venetian Republic, to which it supplied military leaders, scholars, churchmen, diplomats, and statesmen, including seven doges. |
| As the Venetian patriciate developed new strategies for collective self-definition, so too did the doges. |
| Whichever the case, the first doges had their power base in Heraclea. |
| She chases Constable's rainbow, dances with Degas' ballerina, doges Turner's train, plays guitar with Picasso's musicians, and even floats on Monet's lily pad. |
| Most readers of this journal would probably be hard put to come up with more than one or two names of wives of Venetian doges during the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance. |
