Palazzo Giustinian Lolin
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The Palazzo Giustinian Lolin is a palace in the San Marco sestiere in Venice . It is located directly on the Grand Canal , near Campo Santo Stefano and the Ponte dell'Accademia .
history
The building stands on a foundation from the 14th century.
The current building was built in the 17th century as a youth work by the Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena for the Giustinian Lolin family. He was influenced by Vincenzo Scamozzi and in particular by Sebastiano Serlio . During these renovations, the original Gothic building was completely changed, whereby the vertical impulse was retained in the windows, a mezzanine , as has been common in Venetian palaces since the 15th century, was not added. The complex consists of two buildings connected by two wings that delimit a beautiful courtyard with a fountain.
The facade of the building is symmetrical and follows a classic design with two serlianas arranged one above the other in a central position in the two piano nobile (Ionic on the first floor, in Corinthian order on the second floor), to which the portal to the canal corresponds on the ground floor.
There is a mezzanine floor under the attic, above which a sawn cornice runs; on the roof rise two characteristic obelisk-shaped battlements , a feature that can also be found in three other buildings on the Grand Canal, such as the Palazzo Belloni Battagia , Palazzo Balbi and Palazzo Papadopoli, designed by Longhena himself .
In the central hall of the palace, four paintings (Parnassus, the Judgment of Paris, the Landing of Cleopatra, Bacchus and Ariadne) by the French painter Jean Raoux (1677–1734) can be seen. The artist spent two years in Venice for this work.
Among the paintings that remained in Palazzo Giustinian Lolin after the 1974 auction are: a portrait of a young man, the portrait of Angelo Levi, both of which are attributed to the Venetian painter Giacomo Favretto (1849–1887), and a lagoon landscape to the Istrian Pietro Fragiacomo (1856–1922) attributed.
In the 19th century, the palace passed through the hands of several families, including the dancer Maria Taglioni and the Duchess of Parma, Marie-Louise of Austria . It was then acquired by Ugo and Olga Levi, around whom a cultural salon with famous visitors, including Gabriele D'Annunzio, was formed . The current owner is the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation , which was established in 1962 by the Levi spouses and is active in the field of musicology.
Since 2010, the main part of the building has been the representative office of the Permasteelisa group, a company in the field of metal facade design.
bibliography
- Guida d'Italia - Venezia . 3 a ed. Milano, Touring Editore, 2007. ISBN 978-88-365-4347-2 (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.fondazionelevi.it/fondazione/palazzo-giustinian-lolin/ Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation
- ↑ https://www.fondazionelevi.it/fondazione/palazzo-giustinian-lolin/quadri/ Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation
- ↑ Alcuni palazzi: ed antichi edificii di Venezia , by Giuseppe Tassini, Filippi Editori, Tipografia M. Fontana, Venice (1879): page 257.
Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 56 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 42.2 ″ E