Papadopoli (other)
Papadopoli is the Italian form of the common Greek name Papadopoulos. It may refer to: * The , a Venetian patrician family with roots from Crete, which gave its name to all of the following : ** Palazzo Papadopoli, a Baroque palace in Venice ** , a palace in the Tolentini area of Venice, located next to the ''Giardini Papadopoli'' ** Giardini Papadopoli (litt. "Papadopoli Gardens"), a 19th-century park in Venice ** Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli (1655–1740), a Greek-Italian lawyer and historian ** (1802-1844), Venetian scholar and benefactor ** a.k.a. ''Nicolo Papadopoli Aldobrandini'' (1841-1922), Italian politician See also *Papadopoulos Papadopoulos ( el, Παπαδόπουλος, ; meaning "son of a priest") is the most common Greek surname. It is used in Greece, Cyprus and countries of the Greek diaspora as well, such as the USA, United Kingdom, Australia and Scandinavian countri ...

Palazzo Papadopoli
The Palazzo Papadopoli is a Baroque-style palace located on the Canal Grande of Venice, between Palazzo Giustinian Businello and Palazzo Donà a Sant'Aponal in the Sestiere of San Polo, Venice, Italy. The opposite building is the Palazzo Corner Contarini dei Cavalli. History The palace was commissioned in the middle of the 16th century by the Coccina family from the architect Giangiacomo dei Grigi, son of Guglielmo dei Grigi. This family from Bergamo had recently joined the Venetian patriciate. The palace was complete by 1570. In 1748, the palace came to hands of the Tiepolo family. In 1745, the palace and remaining painting collection was sold to the elector of Saxony for 100,000 zecchini. The paintings were moved to the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden. In the 1700s, the piano nobile was decorated by Giandomenico Tiepolo with frescoes of ''The charlatan'' and ''The Minuette ''. His father, Giambattista Tiepolo circa 1750, also putatively painted one ceiling. The pal ...
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Tolentini, Venice
The Chiesa di San Nicolò da Tolentino, commonly known as the Tolentini, is a church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, northern Italy. It lies in a Campo of the same name and along the Rio dei Tolentini, near the Giardino Papadopoli. History The Theatines arrived in Venice in 1527 after the Sack of Rome. The church dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino was begun in 1590 by Vincenzo Scamozzi. The relationship between Scamozzi and his patrons was stormy, and the church was finally completed only in 1714. It is a large church with a huge freestanding Corinthian portico, the only one in Venice, designed by Andrea Tirali. The Tolentini is a parish church of the Vicariate of San Polo-Santa Croce-Dorsoduro. The church contains the tomb of Doge Giovanni I Corner, Francesco Corner, Giovanni II Corner, and Paolo Renier. The funereal monument of the Patriarch of Venice, Giovan Francesco Morosini (d.1678) in the chancel, was completed by the Genovese sculptor Filippo Parod ...
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Giardini Papadopoli
Giardino Papadopoli is a terraced garden filled with shade trees in the Venetian sestiere of Santa Croce, between the Venezia Santa Lucia train station and Piazzale Roma. Its area is about 8,800 sq. m. The gardens occupy the lands of the demolished monastery of Santa Croce. The first park was laid out in 1834 by Francesco Bagnara Francesco Bagnara (1784 in Vicenza – 21 October 1866, in Venice) was an Italian scenographer, decorator and landscape architect. Biography Francesco Bagnara came from a poor family and began work as a decorative room painter. Thanks to the ... for the owners of the . In 1863, and Angelo commissioned Marco Quignon to expand and modify the gardens. A third of its area was destroyed in 1933 when the canal was constructed. References External links * Gardens in Veneto Terraced gardens 1834 establishments in Italy {{Veneto-geo-stub ...
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Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli
Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli ( el, Νικόλαος Κομνηνός Παπαδόπουλος, ''Nikólaos Komninós Papadópoulos''; 6 January 1655 on Crete – 20 January 1740 in Padua) was an Italian lawyer and historian of Greek origin. Life He was born to Zuanne (Giovanni) Papadopoli, a Venetian administrator at Candia, present day Heraklion. Papadopoli studied Canon Law and became a librarian at the University of Padua. In 1726 he published on the history of the university. That work contains gross inaccuracies (if not lies), for example regarding the life of Oliver Cromwell and Nicolaus Copernicus. Papadopoli had falsely claimed in 1726 that he had seen an entry of Copernicus in records of a "Polish nation" at the university. In the century that had passed since, this claim had been widely published and ''"found a place in all subsequent biographies of Copernicus, but the decorative particulars added by the historian of the Pavian university have been shown to be who ...
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