Doge Alvise Mocenigo and Family before the Madonna and Child (1575)
Jacopo Tintoretto
Oil on Canvas. Venetian, Renaissance.
Italian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century
Alvise Mocenigo was the fourth member of his family to become doge (elected chief of state) of Venice. He sits on the lower left wearing symbols of his office: an ermine cloak and Venetian ducal hat.…