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Encyclopedia Britannica



BASSANO

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 490 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BASSANO , a city of Venetia, Italy, in the province of Vicenza, 24 M. N.E. of Vicenza and 30 M. N. of Padua by rail, at the foot of the Venetian Alps. Pop. (1901) town, 7553 ; commune, 15,097. It is well situated upon the Brenta, which is here spanned by a covered wooden
bridge
 , and commands fine views. The castle, erected by the Ezzelini in the 13th century, lies in the upper portion of the town, above the river; a tower, erected by a member of the same family, is a conspicuous feature. The museum and
cathedral
  and some of the other churches contain pictures by the da Ponte family (16th and early 17th century), surnamed Bassano from their
birth
 -place; Jacopo is the most eminent of them. The museum also contains drawings and letters of the sculptor Antonio
Canova
 . The church of S. Francesco, begun in the 12th century in the Lombard Romanesque style, was continued in the 13th in the
Gothic
  style. Some of the houses have traces of paintings on their facades. In the 1th century Eccelin, a German, obtained fiefs in this
district
  from
Conrad
  II. and founded the family of the Ezzelini, who were prominent in the history of North Italy in the 13th and 14th centuries. Bassano apparently came into existence about A.D. 1000.. Its possession was disputed between Padua and Vicenza; it passed for a moment under the power of Gian Galeazzo Visconti of
Milan
 , who fortified it. At the beginning of . the 15th century it went over to Venice; its
industries
  flourished under Venetian government, especially its printing-
press
  and manufacture of majolica, the latter of which still continues. On the 8th of September 1796 an action was fought here between the French and the Austrians, in which the French were victorious. (T. As.)


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