Palazzo Fontana Rezzonico

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Palazzo Fontana Rezzonico

Palazzo Fontana Rezzonico is a palace in Venice in the Veneto region of Italy . It is located in the Cannaregio sestiere overlooking the Grand Canal at the confluence of the Rio di San Felice between the Casa Levi Morenos and the Palazzo Miani Coletti Giusti , not far from Ca 'd'Oro .

history

The owners and clients of the palace were the Fontanas , merchants from Piacenza who had settled in Venice in the mid-16th century. They wanted to have their own palace built and for this purpose acquired an old building on this site in the first years of the 17th century, which was demolished to make way for the present palace.

Towards the end of the 17th century, the palace was rented to the Rezzonico family, who at the time had only recently joined the Venetian nobility, until the construction of their own palace, Ca 'Rezzonico , was completed. In 1693, Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico , who later became Pope Clement XIII , was born in Palazzo Fontana Rezzonico . , born.

Like many other Venetian families, with the crisis that developed from the fall of the Republic of Venice , the Fontanas were forced to sell their palace. The banker Johann Conrad Reck bought it. It was later sold to the Levis and then to the Sullams , who still own it today.

description

The palace was built in the Renaissance style, but over time it also received some characteristic Baroque details . At first glance, the facade shows a very accentuated asymmetry.

On the ground floor two portals open to the water; the main portal is in the middle, under the quadruple window of the main floor, while the second, much smaller, is located on the far right of the facade. The first and second main floors of the palace are almost identical; In addition to the quadruple windows, there are two individual windows on the left and four on the right, all designed as arched windows with protruding, small balconies. On the roof there are two small obelisks made almost entirely of clay .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 . P. 157.
  2. ↑ a b Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 . P. 158.
  3. ↑ Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Fontana . venezia.jc-r.net. Retrieved October 23, 2019.

Web links

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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E