Palazzo Canossa
The Palazzo Canossa in Verona is the work of the Italian Renaissance architect Michele Sanmicheli . The palazzo stands in the center of the northern Italian city of Verona and was designed around 1527.
Building history
The Canossa family is one of the oldest and most important families in Italy. In 1527, Michele Sanmicheli began designing and building the Palazzo Canossa; the Palazzo Bevilacqua and the Palazzo Pompei followed a few years later. It is therefore not surprising that all three buildings have structural similarities.
architecture
The ground floor of the palace with its rusticated stones - despite the triumphal arch scheme used - looks rather squat and from the outside is more reminiscent of a trade or business office. The representative upper floor ( piano nobile ) with its seven windows, each separated by double pilasters , looks rather unadorned compared to the later buildings by Sanmicheli. The windows on both floors have separate skylights. There is no balcony - like at Palazzo Bevilacqua - there is no; instead, the approach to the roof is hidden behind a seven-part parapet with man-high allegorical figures, which contribute significantly to the representative character of the building. The inner courtyard of the palace opens onto the Adige at its rear .
function
The palace served as the town residence of the Canossa family, who also housed ancient statues and pictures by famous Italian painters (including Paolo Veronese ). The ceiling fresco by Gian Battista Tiepolo in the Great Hall with the theme of the apotheosis of Hercules was destroyed in the Second World War. The palace is privately owned and cannot be visited.
Others
From October 20 to December 14, 1822, the Verona Congress took place here, which dealt with questions of the reorganization of Europe in the post-Napoleonic period and after Greece's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire .
literature
- T. Lenotti: Palazzi di Verona. Vita veronese, Verona 1964.
- F. Dal Forno: Case e palazzi di Verona. Banca popolare di Verona, Verona 1973.
- Eva Hermanek: The Veronese palace buildings of Michele Sanmicheli. Erlangen 1984 (dissertation).
- P. Floder Reitter: Case palazzi e ville di Verona e provincia. IET edizioni, Verona 1997.
- G. Forti: La scena urbana: strade e palazzi di Verona e provincia. Athesis, Verona 2000.
- M. Luciolli: Passeggiando tra i palazzi di Verona. Garda, 2003.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 25.5 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 22.5 ″ E