Palazzo Grassi

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Palazzo Grassi

The Palazzo Grassi (1748–1772) is a palace on the banks of the Grand Canal in Venice . The architect Giorgio Massari , who also built the Ca 'Rezzonico , also created it in a style between late baroque and classicism . The client was the Grassi family.

architecture

The architecture of the facade consists of three storeys, of which the lower one with its mezzanine floor and rusticated stones draws on buildings from the 15th and 16th centuries (cf. Palazzo Bevilacqua and others in Verona ). The side entrances of the three-part portal zone in the style of a Venetian window are elevated with coats of arms. The piano nobile essentially consists of nine arched windows reaching down to the floor with small balconies in front of them; the middle windows form a group of five. This is repeated on the upper floor, which, however, is separated from the middle facade level by its rectangular windows with triangular and round gables ( lunettes ) above . Overall, the facade is much less three-dimensional than most of the earlier palazzi in Northern Italy. This can also be seen in the barely structured side facade, which also has a three-part portal with a Venetian window above it.

Later owners

In 1840 the Grassi family sold the palazzo to the tenor Antonio Poggi. It belonged temporarily to the Viennese Baron Simon von Sina , who had extensive renovations carried out, and in the first third of the 20th century it belonged to the owners of Molino Stucky , Giovanni Stucky and his son Giancarlo Stucky .

In 1983 the Italian Fiat group bought the building at the instigation of Gianni Agnelli . Since 2006, the palace has been owned by the French entrepreneur François-Henri Pinault through his financial holding Groupe Artémis , who shows his collection of modern art there.

Exhibitions

  • 2019: Retrospective with around eighty works by the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans , from the eighties to the present

literature

  • Lavinia Cavalletti: La dinastia Stucky, 1841-1941. Storia del molino di Venezia e della famiglia. Since Manin a Mussolini. Studio LT2, Venezia 2011, ISBN 978-88-88028-68-2 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.telegraph.co.uk (Retrieved March 25, 2008)
  2. ↑ Luc Tuymans in Venice: The tender agony of painting , FAZ from September 24, 2019, accessed on the same date

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 1 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 40 ″  E