Palazzi Merati e Berlendis
The Palazzi Merati e Berlendis are palaces in Venice in the Italian region of Veneto . They are located in the Cannaregio sestiere with a view of the Rio di Mendicanti at its confluence with the lagoon.
history
This palace was designed by the architect Andrea Tirali on behalf of the almond merchant Stefano Protasio in 1600. The palace has two wings, which were originally intended for the client's two daughters. The north wing (right) was later called “Palazzo Merati”; the south wing (left), which the Berlendis family bought, was named “Palazzo Berlendis”.
Friedrich Nietzsche lived for a while from 1880 onwards in an apartment on the main floor of the southern palace, the “Palazzo Berlendis”. Part of the building was bought by a branch of the Pesaro family at the beginning of the 20th century , who converted it into apartments. Today both palaces are still in private hands, the Palazzo Berlendis belongs to the Bragadin family , the Palazzo Merati to the Targhetta d'Audiffret die Gréoux family .
description
Both palaces have an almost identical window layout. Their facades extend over two full floors and two mezzanine floors , one between the ground floor and main floor and one under the roof. In the middle of the ground floor of each of the palaces there is a round arched portal to the water, flanked by two rectangular windows and two pairs of smaller, square windows. The Palazzo Berlendis has an additional, lower arched portal to the water between the two left-hand windows. On the mezzanines above there are six rectangular windows above the respective windows on the ground floor.
The eye-catcher of the main floors are the three-part, Venetian windows in the middle, the middle one with a round arch, the two outer rectangular ones with a rectangular skylight. These windows are flanked by pairs of rectangular individual windows. The Venetian windows have protruding balconies, all windows on the main floor in Palazzo Berlendis also have tympanums .
On the mezzanine floors under the roof, the window layout of the lower mezzanine floors is repeated in both palaces. In the Palazzo Berlendis, the four outer windows are rectangular with small balconies, while the middle two (above the tympanum of the Venetian window) are smaller and square. In the Palazzo Merati only the left two windows are rectangular, but without small balconies, the other four windows in the middle and on the right side correspond to the small square windows of the Palazzo Berlendis. Both facades close at the top with a serrated eaves . On the roofs of the palaces - at Palazzo Berlendis on the right, at Palazzo Merati on the left - there is a high chimney and a small dormer .
All windows and portals have frames made of Istrian limestone . The facade of the Palazzo Berlendis was recently renovated; it is plastered and painted white. The facade of Palazzo Merati is still in poor condition and darker.
The baroque interiors, especially the doors to the stairwell in the large salons ( portego ) are well preserved. You can find panes decorated with mythological motifs, frescoes over the doors, marble floors , paneled niches from the 18th century, gold-plated decorations or those made of stucco and the main bathroom with glass tiles and mosaics.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Bénédicte Burguet: Le palais de Nietzsche in Vanity Fair . No. 45 (April 2017). Pp. 38-39.
- ^ A b c Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Merati e Berlendis . venezia.jc-r.net. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 32.3 ″ E