bucentaur
Sign in to savethumb|350px|''The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (painting)|The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (c. 1766–70) by [[Francesco Guardi]] thumb|350px|An anonymous Portrait miniature|miniature, Sbarco dal Bucintoro del doge Sebastiano Ziani al Convento della Carità (The Doge [[Sebastiano Ziani Disembarking from the Bucentaur for the Convent of Charity'', 16th century)]]
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15 sectionsContents
- Origin of the name
- The vessels
- The 1311 bucentaur
- The 1526 bucentaur
- The 1606 bucentaur
- The 1727 bucentaur
- Marriage of the Sea ceremony
- Attempted modern reconstruction
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- Articles
- Books
- External links
thumb|350px|''The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (painting)|The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (c. 1766–70) by [[Francesco Guardi]] thumb|350px|An anonymous Portrait miniature|miniature, Sbarco dal Bucintoro del doge Sebastiano Ziani al Convento della Carità (The Doge [[Sebastiano Ziani Disembarking from the Bucentaur for the Convent of Charity, 16th century)]]
The bucentaur ( ; bucintoro in Italian and Venetian) was the ceremonial barge of the doges of Venice. It was used every year on Ascension Day (Festa della Sensa'') up to 1798 to take the doge out to the Adriatic Sea to perform the "Marriage of the Sea" – a ceremony that symbolically wedded Venice to the sea.