Giovanna Dandolo

Giovanna Dandolo was a dogaressa of Venice by marriage to doge Pasquale Malipiero (reign 1457–1462).

As her predecessor before her, Giovanna Dandolo came to play a very public role as dogaressa, performing representational tasks and acting as the protector of trades and individual artists.

She supported the newly introduced art of book printing in Venice, the lace industry of Burano, and acted as a financier for many writers, artists and scientists.

Palazzi in La Virtu in Giuocco records that she was "a princess of splendid physical and mental gifts but possessed of no private fortune....

[3] The only known surviving portrait of a 15th-century dogaressa is that of Giovanna Dandolo on the reverse of a medal designed by Pietro da Fano (c.

Pietro da Fano, Giovanna Dandolo, Wife of Pasquale Malipiero (reverse), c. 1452-1464, NGA 44557