The first "Castello Ducale", erected under Doge Angelo Partecipazio in the 9th century, was still built of wood. In 976 it burnt down during a revolution against the Doge Candiano.
A new palace was created under Doge Sebastiano Ziani, the important medieval planner of Venice, in 1172-78. The Maggior Consiglio (Great Council) expanded beyond thousand members which led to the planning of a totally new palace. Since then the Palace was rebuilt and renovated not once. http://venice.jc-r.net/doges-palace/
The current palace was largely constructed from 1309 to 1424, designed perhaps by Filippo Calendario.
Piazza San Marco, Venice, in Painting
Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice, In Painting
In the middle of the 19th century, John Ruskin, author of the three-volume The Stones of Venice, was the first who fully recognized the value of the palace, and a number of nineteenth-century imitations of the palace's architecture were erected in the United Kingdom, influenced by his theories (the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, the Wool Exchange, Bradford, the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem).

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