Ca 'Loredan (San Marco)
Ca 'Loredan (also Palazzo Corner Piscopia Loredan ) is a palace in Venice in the Italian region of Veneto . It is located in the Sestiere of San Marco , overlooking the Grand Canal, next to Ca 'Farsetti , opposite the Church of San Silvestro and near the Rialto Bridge . As in the adjacent Ca 'Farsetti, there are offices of the city administration.
history
Ca 'Loredan was built in the 13th century as a Venetian- Byzantine fondaco (German: medieval warehouse) for the Boccasi family and expanded in the 15th century. According to some historians, it became the home of Doge Jacopo Contarini after he retired into private life, and then fell to the Zane family . In the following centuries it was carefully expanded by the Corner Piscopia family , who owned it in the 14th century at the will of Frederico Corner († 1382), the richest merchant of his time. The most important renovation was carried out in the 16th century. Elena Lucrecia Corner Piscopia was born there in 1646 , a philosopher who became the first woman in history to graduate from university in this science: she received her diploma on June 25, 1678. To the event which received a lot of international attention , reminds a marble slab with an inscription. In 1703 the palace became the home of the Loredans who got it through the marriage of a daughter of Girolamo Corner to Giovanni Battista Loredan . After the property fell to Countess Campagna Peccana in 1806 , it was converted into a hotel. In 1867 it came into the possession of the city of Venice and together with the Ca 'Farsetti became the seat of the city administration. Further modifications fundamentally changed the floor plan.
description
The Ca 'Loredan is a building whose core is kept in the Venetian-Byzantine style and in which much of this core has been preserved among the buildings on the Grand Canal, despite all the renovations. On the ground floor there is a central vestibule with five raised arches , supported by four Corinthian columns, above which there is a seven-fold window in the same style on the main floor. On both sides of the vestibule there are symmetrically arranged two windows with raised round arches, with each of which a triple window in the same style harmonises on the main floor. This window arrangement is supplemented by mostly circular, Byzantine decorations. The second main floor, even if it takes up the style of the first, is characterized by a wide seven-fold arched window in the middle, which is flanked by two individual arched windows.
The palace, whose right side facade is characterized by numerous individual windows and the entrance portal, is characterized by four overpasses that connect it to the Ca 'Farsetti. At the back there is a long inner courtyard that separates the two side wings. There are numerous arched windows and various puteals . On the main floor is the Salone del Consiglio (German: Council Chamber), in which works of art by Benedetto Caliari , Gregorio Lazzarini and Bonifazio Veronese are preserved.
Individual evidence
- ^ Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 . P. 87.
swell
- Marcello Brusegan: La grande guida dei monumenti di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2005. ISBN 88-541-0475-2 .
- Guida d'Italia - Venezia . 3. Edition. Touring, Milan 2007. ISBN 978-88-365-4347-2 .
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 '11 " N , 12 ° 20' 3.6" E