Palazzi Contarini degli Scrigni e Corfù
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The Palazzi Contarini degli Scrigni e Corfù are two palaces in Venice in the Italian region of Veneto . They form a unit in the Dorsoduro sestiere with a view of the Grand Canal between the Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara and the Rio di San Trovaso .
history
The two palaces of the Contarini family are very different from each other because they were practically built two centuries apart. The Palazzo Contarini Corfù on the right is a 15th century building that was partially rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni on the left, however, was built between 1609 and 1616 , a work attributed to Vincenzo Scamozzi .
In 1777 Tommaso Scalfarotto had an arch built to reinforce the facade facing the Grand Canal. In 1838 the Contarinis left the palace, which first fell to Contessa Matilde Berthold , who had it rebuilt inside. Then it fell to Peabody Russel , a wealthy American art dealer. Fortunately, his plan to demolish both buildings and replace them with a larger one was never carried out.
Riccardo Rocca , a retired lawyer from the Kingdom of Italy who received the title of Count in 1900, then bought the palaces. During this time there were important personalities in the palaces, such as the imperial princes Charles I of Austria-Hungary and Otto von Habsburg , Gabriele D'Annunzio , the musician Pietro Mascani , Guglielmo Marconi , Aimone and Amadeo Duchi di Savoia Aosta and the excellent French Actress Réjane , to whom a stone tablet is dedicated, is a guest.
In 1985, Charles, Prince of Wales , and his wife Diana were guests at the palace and were escorted to the observation tower on the occasion.
description
Palazzo Contarini Corfù
The older building is in Gothic style , has three floors and a large portal to the water. The facade has two main floors, which are designed according to the same pattern; an elegant quadruple window with pointed arches and balusters in the middle is flanked by two pairs of individual keel-arched windows. All windows are set in rectangular frames.
Inside there are frescoes from the 18th century, traces of which can also be seen on the back of the building.
Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni
The three floors are the same height as the adjoining palace, but otherwise the palace from the 17th century with its lines typical of the Renaissance shows a completely different picture.
The facade of the Grand Canal is on the ground floor with rustication provided, which is interrupted in the middle by a portal. The two main floors are clad in Istrian limestone and have five symmetrically arranged round arched single windows , all with protruding ballusters and separated from each other by pairs of Corinthian pilaster strips . In the middle, the facade has a roof structure which is remarkable for its small Venetian window .
Despite the stylistic differences, the two palaces were built so that you can walk from one building to the other inside because the floors are the same height.
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 Editore, Milan 2007. ISBN 978-88-365-4347-2 .
Web links
- Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Contarini a San Trovaso . Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- Alessia Rosada, Carlos Travaini: Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni e Corfù . Retrieved September 25, 2019.
Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 55.5 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 39.6 ″ E