Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore
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Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore is a palace in Venice in the Veneto region of Italy . It is located in the Dorsoduro sestiere with a view of the Grand Canal between the Palazzo Moro a San Barnaba and the Ca 'Mainella .
history
The Loredans , who owned the palace, were one of the most illustrious families of the so-called "Case nuove", who achieved the dignity of the Doge in 1501 with Leonardo Loredan and a second time in 1572 with Francesco Loredan .
The noble residence of the Loredans dates from the second half of the 15th century. The name "dell'Ambasciatore" goes back to the fact that the palace was available to the Austrian embassy for 29 years during the tenure of Francesco Loredan as doge , as long as the ambassador paid the rent in advance and provided that it was that he had the building restored at his own expense. The offer was accepted and in 1754 the ambassador Filippo di Rosenberg Orsini moved in there. From 1764 it was Count Giacomo Durazzo , imperial ambassador to Venice 1764–1784 and member of an old Genoese family, who settled there with his wife, Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolf , an Austrian noblewoman. The portrait of the couple, created by Martin van Meytens , hangs today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York .
In 1891 the palace was largely destroyed by fire, but was immediately rebuilt. Today it is the private residence of the Gaggia family .
description
The Gothic building was probably built around 1470 and extends over three floors, while behind it rises a building one floor higher from a later era.
What distinguishes the palace, or rather its facade (rather than its almost square dimensions), is the great architectural rigor. Two main floors with multiple windows are one above the other. Even if the middle of the 15th century was already past, its architecture is still clearly Gothic, but it is moving into a new era and the fundamental idea on which the ensemble is based does not come from just one epoch.
The ground floor has a beautiful keel arch portal and two levels of small individual windows. The first main floor shows an elegant loggia , composed of quadruple windows with delimited pointed arches , delimited by balusters and small columns, above, inside marbled frames, openings based on the model of the Doge's Palace and the Ca 'd'Oro . The quadruple window is flanked by two single wedge-arched windows on each side, each with a half-relief in the middle showing the Loredans coat of arms. The second main floor has the same single window, but in the middle only the quadruple window without decorations.
Characteristic is the solution of the two niches with their backs set in the free areas of the wall, which form the side rooms between the two individual windows; Arslan sees the influence of Renaissance artists in these architectural and artistic motifs as new solutions.
Gallery images
- Details of the facade, photographed by Paolo Monti , 1969
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swell
- Marcello Brusegan: La grande guida dei monumenti di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2005. ISBN 88-541-0475-2 .
- Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 .
- Guida d'Italia - Venezia . 3. Edition. Touring Editore, Milan 2007. ISBN 978-88-365-4347-2 .
- Angela Valenti Durazzo: Il Fratello del Doge. Giacomo Durazzo un illuminista alla corte degli Asburgo from Mozart, Casanova e Gluck . La Compagnia della Stampa, 2012.
Web links
- Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore . In: venezia.jc-r.net . Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- Alessia Rosada, Carlos Travaini: Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore . In: Canal Grande di Venezia . Retrieved September 20, 2019.
Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 57.6 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 37.6 ″ E