Portrait of Otto Orseolo

Book Title: Fasti ducales ab Anafesto I. ad Silvestrum Valerium Venetorum ducem cum eorum iconibus, insignibus, nummismatibus publicis, & privatis aere sculptis: inscriptionibus ex aula M. Consilii, ac sepulchralibus. Adiectae sunt adnotationes, ad vitam cuiusque principis, rerum, quae omissae fuerant; studio Ioannis Palatii ...

Author: Palazzi, Giovanni, b. 1640?

Image Title: Portrait of Otto Orseolo

Description: A portrait of Venetian Doge Otto Orseolo (993-1032), who reigned from 1009 to 1026, the second son of his predecessor Pietro II. Political intrigue ended Otto’s reign; he was arrested, shaven, and banished to Constantinople, where he lived out the rest of his short life. Otto’s coat of arms features two dancing bears.

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