Example sentences for: doges

How can you use “doges” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Of the 76 doges portrayed here, one is blackened out, Marino Faliero, beheaded for treason in 1355.

  • Returning to the Grand Canal: You’ll find in the glorious Ca’ d’Oro the quintessential decorative tradition of Venetian architecture, arguably more successful in its compact form here than in the beautiful but sprawling Doges’ Palace.

  • Built for the Pisani doges in 1756, with 200 rooms, Tiepolo frescoes in the ballroom, and vast park with pond, labyrinth, and stables, it was purchased by Napoleon in 1807 and subsequently hosted Tsars, Hapsburg emperors, and, for their first meeting in 1934, Hitler and Mussolini.

  • Built by the Dominicans, it was the doges’ funeral church with some 25 buried here, many in masterpieces of monumental tombs.

  • What began in a.d. 830 as the Doges’ chapel for the remains of the evangelist Mark, the republic’s patron saint, was rebuilt in the 11th century as a grandiose Byzantine-Oriental basilica influenced by the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople.


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