Ca 'Favretto
Ca 'Favretto , also Palazzo Bragadin Favretto , is a palace in Venice in the Italian region of Veneto . It is located in the Santa Croce sestiere with a view of the Grand Canal next to Ca 'Corner della Regina .
history
The Ca 'Favretto is one of the palaces of the Bragadin family , one of the 24 "old" families of Venice who founded the city in 725. Its best-known member was Marcantonio Bragadin , who conquered Cyprus for the Venetians in the 15th century .
The Gothic palace dates back to the 14th century and was built in place of an older, Byzantine building. It was later rebuilt several times. The painter Giacomo Favretto (1849–1887) lived there in the 19th century . Today the Hotel San Cassiano is housed there.
description
The facade of the three-story building is plastered and painted orange-red. The ground floor has a rectangular portal to the water, flanked by two rectangular frames in Istrian limestone and two individual windows.
On the first main floor there is a loggia made of green lacquered wood with two small, rectangular windows directly above the portal . It is flanked by two pairs of rectangular windows with green shutters. Between the two windows on the right there is a marble plaque reminiscent of the painter who gave the house its name.
On the second floor in the middle of a great quad pulls keel arched windows with a protruding, with balusters provided balcony attention to itself. The balcony and the rectangular window frames are made of Istrian limestone. There are again two pairs of rectangular windows on either side of the quadruple window. Keel-arched decorations in Istrian limestone are placed over the two outer windows.
On the roof, above the serrated eaves , sits in the middle a large dormer window with two single arched windows, framed in Istrian limestone and provided with green shutters.
Web links and sources
- Alessia Rosada, Carlos Travaini: Ca 'Favretto . In: Canal Grande di Venezia . Retrieved January 9, 2020.
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 26.2 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 57 ″ E