Palazzo Dolfin Manin
The Palazzo Dolfin Manin is a Venetian palace in the Sestiere San Marco , the main facade on the Grand Canal looks. The building is located not far from the Rialto Bridge next to Palazzo Bembo . Today there is a branch of the Banca d'Italia in the house .
The palace was built for the Dolfin family from 1536 , with the two previous buildings being replaced by the new building. Zuane Manin, sole heir and follower of Doge Andrea Gritti , became Proveditore generale in campo in 1529 and Podestà of Verona in 1532 . Upon his return, the family's two medieval houses, which the family owned near the Rialto Bridge, were to be replaced by a representative building. The Manin were able to enforce this against the resistance of the neighbors, i.e. the Bembo, Dandolo and Da Molin. When Zuane died in 1547, the palace was largely completed. The palace had a trapezoidal floor plan with a square inner courtyard and access from the Rio dei Coffaneri. The construction costs amounted to 30,000 ducats. However, Zuane Dolfin could not prevent the bodies of the republic from demanding passage for the public. The facade was built from 1538 to 1547 under the direction of Jacopo Sansovino , which allowed the footpath under an arcade. According to Garry Wills, the Dolfin's palazzo was Sansovino's first palace, but the Ca 'Corner della Ca'Granda was built under his direction as early as 1533. In the 17th century, the Dolfin initially rented the palace, but later sold it successively. The new owners included members of the Pesaro, Venier, Dolce and Correggio.
From the early 18th century, the Manin family , who bought entry in the Golden Book of the Venetian nobility during the war between the Ottoman Empire and Venice for Crete in 1651, lived in the piano nobile of the Dolfin Palace as their headquarters . The Manin also included the Doge Ludovico Manin , on whose initiative numerous changes and internal modifications were made. Ludovico and his brother Pietro finally bought the entire palace in 1787, which was in poor condition. The builder Giannantonio Selva had the inner courtyard and the shops that were located in the Sottoportico removed, and he had the entrance stairs replaced with neoclassical ones. The idea of radically redesigning the facade in the classical style was given up in the face of fierce opposition. After the Republic of Venice decided to dissolve itself in 1797, the last doge to abdicate lived in the palace for five more years until his death. The Manin owned one of the most important libraries in Venice, which was expanded in 1810 to include the holdings of the Basadonna. Due to the economic decline of the family, however, it was scattered including the furniture.
The palace remained in the possession of the Manin until 1867. It then became the property of the Banca Nazionale del Regno. Now, as in many other places in Venice, the streets around the Rialto Bridge have been widened and canals filled in. The calle della Scimmia, which is adjacent to Palazzo Manin to the north, was also expanded to become calle larga Mazzini and immediately renamed after Giuseppe Mazzini . The interiors were redecorated in 1911, and furnishings from the late 18th century were also lost.
Between 1968 and 1971 the building was partially restored and the decoration from the time of the Banca Nazionale was partially removed. Further work was carried out from 2002.
The portico on the ground floor is characterized by six arches supported by seven pilasters. They correspond to the Ionic columns of the piano nobile and the Corinthian columns of the second floor, the secondo piano nobile . The severity of the work is underpinned by pairs of windows, each corresponding to an arch on the ground floor, with a quadrifora in the middle part . The top ends with a wide, toothed roof overhang . A staircase leads from the inner courtyard, which has been rebuilt several times, to the upper floors.
Inside, the palace housed works of art by Giambattista Tiepolo from the years 1725 to 1730 and 1740, which may have been created on the occasion of the marriage of Lodovico Manin and Elisabetta Grimani in 1748. In some rooms, such as an alcove in the piano nobile and in some rooms in the piano secondo , ceiling paintings and stucco work have been preserved, which were made under the direction of Gianantonio Selva by Pierantonio Novelli , Jacopo Guarana , Costantino Cedini , Pietro Moro and Giuseppe Bernardino Bison .
literature
- Linda Borean: Appunti per una storia del collezionismo a Venezia nel Seicento: la pinacoteca di Lorenzo Dolfin , in: Studi Veneziani 38 (1999) 259-300.
- Martina Frank: Per una ricostruzione del gusto Manin. Dalla formazione delle collezioni alla ristrutturazione neoclassica di palazzo Dolfin-Manin a Venezia , in: Gilberto Ganzer (ed.): Splendori di una dinastia: l'eredità europea dei Manin e dei Dolfin , Milan 1996, pp. 13-20.
Web links
- Palazzo Dolfin Manin , website by Jan-Christoph Rößler
Remarks
- ^ Garry Wills: Venice Lion City. The Religion of Empire , Washington Square Press, 2001, p. 326 f.
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 13.6 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 8.2 ″ E