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Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari - Venice, Italy
Doge Giovanni Pesaro Monument

Because of its sheer size and the symbolism inherent in it--both intended and otherwise--Doge Giovanni Pesaro's monument may be one of the most compelling works in the Frari. Though Giovanni governed for only seventeen months, the Pesaro family was so influential in Venice that the only Pesaro to become a Doge got exactly what he wanted--a splendid mausoleum.

The monument frames the door in the left aisle of the church, between the monuments to Canova and the Ca'Pesaro altar. It is significant that two other members of the Pesaro family are interred here in the Frari.

Melchior Barthel
b. Dresden 1625 - d. 1672
He trained in Dresden with his sculptor-father Hieronymous, and other masters. He was in Venice by the 1650, and he lived there for 17 years. He worked on a number of important commissions, including the slave figures on the tomb of Doge Giovanni Pesaro (1669; the Frari church), a statue of St. John the Baptist (Scalzi Church), a Crucifix (church of San Bartolomeo) and a mourning female figure for the tomb of the painter Melchiore Lanza (Basilica of Giovanni e Paolo). Barthel was appointed court sculptor in Dresden in 1670. We know of no large works from this period there. He made large copies of groups from Classical antiquity in ivory. Barthel was also known as a master builder, but there is no known evidence of that work of his.

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