Palazzo Bernardo di Canal

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The front facade of the Benardo Palace on the Grand Canal

The Palazzo Bernardo di Canal , also Palazzo Bernardo , is a palace in the Venetian sestiere San Polo with the address San Polo 1977, 1978. Its front facade overlooks the Grand Canal , which forms a right angle with the flowing Rio de la Madoneta . The palace from the 1st half of the 15th century is located between the Palazzo Querini Dubois and the much smaller Casa Safe .

history

The city palace was built before 1442, because that year Francesco I. Sforza was a guest there. The building was originally owned by the Bernardo family. On April 14, 1651, the Bernardo sold the building to Bortolo Bellotto, a wealthy fur trader. In 1694 Pietro and Simone Bernardo, dye dealers and cittadini originari, bought the Palazzo Bernardo again. In 1780 Alessandro Bernardo managed to rise to the nobility.

In 1882 Pietro Naratovich purchased the Bernardo Palace. After that, a complicated development of ownership and distribution among different owners set in, while the palace increasingly fell into disrepair. The last major restoration took place in 1998. The current owners are the Avogadro Degli Azzoni, a noble family originally from Treviso . Part of it belongs to the university.

description

The row of palaces and case on the Grand Canal
Palazzo Bernardo and Casa Safe ; Photo by Paolo Monti , 1969

The palace is one of the few well-preserved examples of a two-family palace, gotico fiorito 'a six-part tracery - loggia in the second piano nobile . Represents Numerous elements make acquisitions of 1422 completed Doge's Palace . Is, since the opening widths of the two sechsbogigen loggias on the first and second piano nobile do not have exactly the same dimensions, an exact joining of the hall openings was also not feasible. The second piano nobile has four large windows with so-called 'hanging capitals'. Next to it are a pair of biforas to the right and left, just like in the primo piano nobile

With the restoration work in 1998, a detailed building survey was created. Remains of polychrome frescoes were found on the brick facade, which were mainly preserved where they were protected, such as below the eaves. Part of a segmented arched window on the water floor was also visible again. Its age is uncertain, but the cityscape by Jacopo de'Barbari , which was created between 1498 and 1500, shows similar segmented arched windows, where today there are tall rectangular windows.

The inner courtyard offers an original, but very heavily restored flight of stairs with small sculptures on the handrail , which leads to the second piano nobile via a podium .

literature

  • Marcello Brusegan: I Palazzi di Venezia , Newton & Compton, Rome 2007, p. 39 f.

Web links

Commons : Palazzo Bernardo di Canal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Marcello Brusegan : I Palazzi di Venezia , Newton & Compton, Rome 2007, p. 39.
  2. ↑ Marcello Brusegan: I Palazzi di Venezia , Newton & Compton, Rome 2007, p. 40.
  3. ↑ Manfred Schuller: Le facciate dei Palazzi medioevali a Venezia , in: Francesco Valcanover, Wolfgang Wolters (ed.): L 'Architettura Gotica Veneziana , Venice 2000, pp. 281-350, here: pp. 323-330.

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 10.7 "  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 51.3"  E