Palazzo Contarini Polignac

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Palazzo Contarini Polignac
Claude Monet: Palazzo Contarini (1908)
Behind the garden of the Palazzo Balbi-Valier Sammartini the side facade of the Palazzo Contarini
The adjacent Palazzo Brandolin Rota

The Palazzo Contarini Polignac , formerly Palazzo Contarini dal Zaffo , and Palazzo Contarini Polignac Decazes , one is Palazzo of the early Renaissance , which in Venetian Sestiere Dorsoduro on the Grand Canal stands. Since 2014 Save Venice has maintained the Rosand Library & Study Center in the Palazzo, Dorsoduro 870, with currently (as of 2019) 4000 volumes.

history

Palazzo Contarini may have been built towards the end of the 15th century for a lawyer from the University of Padua , but no precise information is known about its initial history or the early owners.

Around 1550 the palazzo was acquired by a member of the Contarini dal Zaffo family, who, as a family that provided the Doge of Venice eight times , gave their name to several palaces in Venice. This palace remained in their possession until 1783, when it was sold to the Bergamo merchants Manzoni. After a further change of ownership to the Angaran family, the building was acquired in 1900 by Winnaretta Singer , heiress to the millionaires and Princesse de Polignac, whose husband, the composer Edmond de Polignac , died the following year. The house was bequeathed to her niece Decazes and the palace is still owned by the family today.

Singer had the interiors renovated, furniture and furnishings from the Palazzo Labia auctioned and Domenico Tiepolo's frescoes from the Palazzo Correr a Santa Fosca, which were transferred to canvas, installed. They show "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia" and a Roman officer who turns to his soldiers. She had an Erard grand piano come from Paris . During the Singer era, the Palazzo became the setting for musical soirees, at which Arthur Rubinstein , Ignacy Jan Paderewski , Fritz Kreisler , Reynaldo Hahn and Vladimir Horowitz performed and the singers Enrico Caruso , Nellie Melba and Luisa Tetrazzini performed. During a stay sponsored by Singer in the summer of 1932, Francis Poulenc premiered the Italian Concerto for Two Pianos in Venice. In 1908, Claude Monet painted the palace several times from a gondola . One of the pictures, from the inventory of the art dealer Nahmad , last changed hands in 2013 for £ 19,682,500 at Sotheby’s . During his trip to Venice, Monet lived in Palazzo Barbaro .

Location and architecture

The palace is located on the Grand Canal between the Ponte dell'Accademia and the Palazzo Barbarigo , opposite the Palazzo Franchetti . The direct neighbors are the Palazzo Brandolin Rota and the Palazzo Balbi-Valier Sammartini .

It is one of the important palazzi of the early Venetian Renaissance. Alternatively, Mauro Codussi and Giovanni Buora are named as possible architects, but it is generally stated that the palazzi of this period do not have any documented attributions. Architecturally, it represents a link between the decorative style of the Pietro Lombardo family of sculptors and the Renaissance builder Mauro Codussi.

Two slender windows, each closed with a round arch, give light to the living and working spaces behind the facade. In particular, the festoons of the frieze between the water level and the piano nobile are of high quality. Small traces of the original gilding have been preserved. The façade of the water level is heavily perforated compared to the buildings built earlier and cites the arched windows of the two main levels. The windowing on the left side of the garden of the Palazzo Balbi is not uniform, there is also a simple triforium .

literature

  • Wolfgang Wolters: Architecture and ornament: Venetian architectural jewelry of the Renaissance . Beck, Munich 2000.
  • Peter Lauritzen; Alexander Zielcke: Venetian palaces. Palaces of Venice . Bruckmann, Munich 1979.
  • Alvise Zorzi , Paolo Marton: Palaces in Venice. Palazzi di Venezia . Hirmer, Munich 1989. (In general and on individual palazzi, the Palazzo Contarini Polignac is not covered.)

Web links

Commons : Palazzo Contarini Polignac  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Zelger: A music salon on the Grand Canal. The Palazzo Contarini and the patron Winnaretta Singer de Polignac , NZZ , May 3, 2014, p. 25f
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Lauritzen; Alexander Zielcke: Venetian palaces. Palaces of Venice , 1979, pp. 138-141
  3. ^ Anne Reimers: Millions? But guaranteed! , Report, in: FAZ , June 15, 2013, p. 36
  4. ↑ Claude Monet: Le Palais Contarini , at Sotheby’s
  5. ↑ a b Norbert Huse ; Wolfgang Wolters: Venice, the art of the Renaissance. Architecture, sculpture, painting 1460–1590 . Knowledge Buchges., Darmstadt 1996, p. 44f. There as Palazzo Contarini (S. Vio)
  6. ^ Palazzo Contarini Polignac , at venedig.jc-r.net


Coordinates: 45 ° 25 '52.4 "  N , 12 ° 19' 45.6"  E