Bucentaure (Venetian boat)
See also: Bucentaure
The Bucentaure was a building of parade which one was used oneself for Venice for the celebration of the marriage of the Doge with the sea, ceremony which was achieved the day of the Ascension.
Presentation
It was a very high kind of galère without mast nor veil, served by oarsmen and crowned by a semicircular species of estrade, from where each year the doge threw a gold ring in the Adriatique as signs that he married it. This habit goes back to the year 1177. It drew its name from what it carried to the Proue the image of a Centaure assembled on an ox.
External bonds
- Solomon Reinach, the marriage with the sea, Worships, myths and religions , T. II, ED. Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1906, pp. 206-219.
Source
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