Palazzo Cappello Layard
The Palazzo Cappello Layard is a palace in the Venetian Sestiere San Polo with the address San Polo 2035, which stands at the confluence of the Rio di San Polo in the Canal Grande . It dates from the late Middle Ages , but was rebuilt in the 16th and again in the 19th century. With its two façades, which were painted from the 16th to the 18th century, it points to both the Grand Canal and the Rio San Polo, but has a third, if even more inconspicuous, facade with a view of the Rio delle Erbe . To the north is the Palazzo Grimani Marcello , to the south, on the other side of the Rio di San Polo, is the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza from the 16th century.
history
The originally Gothic building was rebuilt in the Renaissance style in the 16th century . The initiator was the procurator of San Marco Antonio Cappello (1494-1565). Giovanni Battista Zelotti and Paolo Veronese , who had already won over the Veronese , won Cappello, who was responsible for the municipal supervision of many of the most important Venetian buildings of the 16th century, such as the Rialto Bridge , the Marciana Library and the Scala d'Oro in the Doge's Palace Master builder Michele Sanmicheli had received orders from Cappello for the decoration of his palace. Giorgio Vasari remembers how Paolo Veronese and Zelotti painted the facade. But the cycle they created was badly damaged by fire in 1627, as Marco Boschini noted in 1674, with the memory of the contribution by Paolo Veronese fading. Only part of the "figure" has been restored under some of the windows, particularly the representation of Diana . Zelotti's idols were still visible in 1760, when Anton Maria Zanetti the Younger had his Varie Pitture a fresco de principali maestri Veneziani printed.
The Ca 'Cappello was acquired by Austen Henry Layard between 1874 and 1878 , assisted by the Dean of the English Congregation in Venice, Rawdon Brown . Layard's wife Enid Layard played a key role in this . Layard, who worked as an archaeologist and who became famous for the discovery of Nimrud and Nineveh , enriched the palace with an important art collection. In 1875 he first had his own collection of Italian Renaissance paintings transferred to the Ca 'Cappello. Then he had the building redesigned to his liking with red, yellow and green sheets, and Spanish silk draped over the balconies. Many of the works of art were bequeathed to the Museo Correr in 1892 . The couple's collection was, however, largely successively brought to London by Layard's widow.
By then, the Palazzo had become an international meeting place for numerous actors from the fields of culture, politics and diplomacy. This also applied after Layard's death, whose considerably younger widow Enid, born in 1843, continued to run the palace from 1894 to 1912. Visitors included John Ruskin and Giovanni Morelli , the poet Robert Browning , the historian Horatio Brown , but also the Venetian nobility, such as Annina Morosini . Enid Layard maintained friendly contacts with Alexandra of Denmark and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1840–1901). In 1911 she welcomed Kaiser Wilhelm II and Lord Kitchener as guests for a private conversation. With Layard's death in 1912, the house's role as an international salon and meeting place ended.
The Carnelutti family bought the palace. The lawyer Francesco Carnelutti lived there until his death in 1965, when the University of Venice took over the house in 1967. Since then, it has housed the Vicino e Medio Oriente e Caucaso section of the Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea of the university. In 2014 a violent dispute began, also in public, over the sale of the palace, but also of other municipal buildings of the university.
description
Since the palace is located on several canals, it has three facades, which, however, appear extremely unadorned due to the lack of painted paintings. One of the facades overlooks the Grand Canal; it is opened by a water portal with stairs and two free-standing columns. Its simplicity contrasts with the large number of 22 monoforas in total; there are nine or eight arched windows on the upper floors. The primopiano nobile , the main floor is defined by a single-acting trifora riquadrata in the in the direction of a terrace Palazzo Grimani Marcello opens. The three-arched loggia to the Grand Canal still has Gothic foliage capitals. The facade, which overlooks the Rio di San Polo, has two trifors with a balcony and elaborate capitals , each flanked by two monoforas. The coats of arms and pateren (a form of the bas-relief ) are imitations of the 19th century. An unadorned third facade points to the Rio delle Erbe. There is a small courtyard in the center of the building. A side courtyard facing the Grand Canal, next to the loggia and the entrance portico, was probably closed in the 19th century.
literature
- Marcello Brusegan : I palazzi di Venezia , Newton & Compton, 2005, p. 51.
Web links
- Palazzo Cappello Layard , website by Jan-Christoph Rößler
Remarks
- ↑ Alessandra Lotto: Aspetti della committenza veneziana in riferimento all'opera di Battista Zelotti , tesi di dottorato, University of Venice 2009, pp. 116–119 ( online ).
- ^ Marco Boschini: Le Ricche Miniere della Pittura Veneziana , Venice 1674, p. 6 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Anton Maria Zanetti: Varie pitture a fresco de principali maestri Veneziani: ora per la prima volta con le stampe publicato , Venice 1760.
- ↑ Laurence Hutton: Literary Landmarks of Venice , New York, 1896, p. 39 f.
- ↑ Rosella Mamoli-Zorzi: Enid e Henry Austen Layard: collezionismo e mondanità a Palazzo Cappello , in: Francesco Bisutti, Maria Celotti: Personaggi stravaganti a Venezia tra '800 e' 900 , Venice 2010, pp. 75-96.
- ^ Angelo Righetti: Layard tra gli intellettuali inglesi e americani in Italia , in: Frederick Mario Fales, Bernard Hickey: Austen Henry Layard tra l'oriente e Venezia , Rome 1983, p. 104.
- ^ Gianfrancesco Turano: Ca 'Foscari, tre sedi storiche in svendita. Studenti e professori contro il Rettore , in: L'Espresso, January 27, 2014.
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 '6 " N , 12 ° 19' 34.3" E