Cornaro family

The House of Cornaro or Corner were a Venetian patrician family in the Republic of Venice and included many Doges and other high officials.

The Cornari were among the twelve tribunal families of the Republic of Venice and provided founding members of the Great Council in 1172.

They commissioned many famous monuments and works of art, including Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome (1652).

[1] The Cornaro Piscopias ran a large sugar plantation in their fief near Episcopi in Venetian Cyprus, in which they exploited slaves of Syrian or Arab origin or local serfs.

Sugar was transformed in-house with a large copper boiler made in Venice that the family paid hefty sums to maintain and operate.

Arms of the Cornaro family
Ca' Corner , one of eight palaces along Venice's Grand Canal commissioned by the Cornaro family.
Bernini 's Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in the Cornaro family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome .
Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore , Venice