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In the 17th century, the family expanded upon their large [[Palazzo Barbaro]] of [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] design on Venice's Grand Canal by also building a second [[Baroque]] palace right next to it for the purpose of housing their ballroom.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.turismo.provincia.venezia.it/turismoambientale/cd_1/itinerari/Guggenheim/cabarbaro.html | title="Ca' Barbaro" (Italian) | accessdate=2008-11-14}}</ref>

The church of [[San Francesco della Vigna]] houses a chapel of the Barbaro family containing the Barbaro ancestral device, a red circle on a white field, granted in the 12th century after Admiral Marco Barbaro cut off the hand of a [[moors|moor]] and placed it on the man's turban which he then flew from his [[masthead]] .<ref>''The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto'', Jonathan Buckley, Rough Guides, 2004, pg.165 </ref>.

The Barbaro family [[Albergo]] supported the [[Scuole Grandi|''Scuola Grande'']] of the church of [[San Rocco, Venice]], which primarily assisted citizens in time of plague, and the Scuola's Sala dell'Albergo functioned as the conference room for the members of the confraternity's Albergo. <ref> Astrid Zenkert, tintoretto in Der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble un Wirkung, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003. ISBN 3-8030-1918-4. </ref>