Palazzo Duodo (Santa Croce)
The Palazzo Duodo (also Palazzo Duodo Balbi-Valier ) is a palace in Venice in the Italian region of Veneto . It is located in the Santa Croce sestiere , overlooking the Grand Canal, next to the Ca 'Tron and near the San Stae Church .
history
This palace is an ancient aristocratic residence and dates from the late 14th or early 15th century. In the following century it was rebuilt, but kept its proportions. The Palazzo Duodo is named after its owners in the 19th century, members of the Duodo family . The building later fell to the Balbi Valier family . Today the palace, which has been restored several times, is in good condition and still a private residence.
description
The Palazzo Duodo has two full floors and a mezzanine floor . The facade is in Venetian Gothic . In the middle, above the finely crafted, serrated eaves of the old building, there is a small dormer window with a tympanum and two individual windows, which certainly comes from a later period. The window division of the single main floor corresponds to a scheme that can be found on many Gothic facades of the lagoon city: a pair of individual keel-arched windows on the sides and a quadruple window with balusters in the middle . The only other Gothic element on the facade is the old portal to the water.
Web links and sources
- Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Duodo Balbi-Valier . venezia.jc-r.net. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
- Alessia Rosada, Carlos Travaini: Palazzo Duodo . In: Canal Grande di Venezia . Retrieved August 23, 2019.
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 30.4 " N , 12 ° 19 ′ 48.3" E