Cornaro family
Ca' Cornaro, one of eight palaces along Venice's Grand Canal commissioned by the Cornaro family.
Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Theresa from the Cornaro family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
The Cornaro, also known as Corner, are a patrician family in Venice, from which for centuries senior office-holders and Doges sprung.
Members include
- Felicia Cornaro (died 1111), dogaressa of Venice
- Andrea Cornaro (died 1323), Margrave of Bodonitsa
- Marco Cornaro (c. 1286 – 1368), doge 1365-68
- Luigi Cornaro (c. 1464 – 1566), who wrote treatises on dieting
- Giorgio Cornaro (1452–1527), brother of Caterina Cornaro
- Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510), Queen of Cyprus from 1474 to 1489
- Francesco Cornaro (1476–1543), Cardinal from 1527
- Marco Cornaro (1482–1524), cardinal from 1500
- Cardinal Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro (1579–1653), Patriarch of Venice in 1631-1644
- Giovanni I Cornaro (1551–1629), doge from 1624
- Francesco Corner (1585–1656), doge in 1656
- Giovanni II Cornaro (1647–1722), doge from 1709
- Laura Cornaro (d. 1739; dogaressa
- Giovanni Cornaro (1720–1789), cardinal from 1778
They had eight palaces on the Grand Canal, Venice at different times, and commissioned many famous monuments and works of art, including Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome (1652). In Greece the island of Scarpanto was their fief from the early 14th century until the Ottoman conquest.
Other Cornaros (possibly related) include:
- Alvise Cornaro (1484–1566), writer
- Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553–1614), Cretan poet
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), first woman to get a Doctor of Philosophy degree (from the University of Padua in 1678)
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