Palazzo Michiel dalle Colonne
Palazzo Michiel dalle Colonne is a Venetian palace located in the Cannaregio sestiere on the Grand Canal .
history
The palace is probably of Romanesque origin, originally belonged to the Duodo family and was rebuilt several times in the following years. The palace was given its current appearance in the second half of the 17th century through the renovation of the previous Gothic-Byzantine building owned by the Zen family by Antonio Gaspari . Other owners were the Michiel , Martinengo and Doná delle Rose families . His name dalle Colonne , the Palace of the portico of the water shell that forms a magnificent loggia overlooking the Grand Canal. The eponymous Michiel family, one of the oldest noble families in Venice, only owned the palace for a short time, namely during the last 70 years of the republic. The building is now owned by the Veneto region , which had major restoration work carried out around the year 2000.
description
The baroque facade is completely symmetrical and shows the typical tripartite division of the older palaces. The structure of the water level was adopted from the original building. We see two piani nobili , identical in structure , with the second floor being slightly lower. All windows have balustrades ; those of the piani nobili are decorated with openwork gables and small stone busts. Inside, parts of the stucco work and paintings by Michelangelo Morlaiter from 1775 have been preserved.
literature
- Hermann E. Mark: History and Stories of the Canal Grande. An illustrated guide to politics and art history, geography and adventure along the Grand Canal . Ibera, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85052-116-8 , p. 63 ff.
- Alvise Zorzi: Grand Canal. Biography of a waterway . Claassen, Hildesheim 1993, ISBN 3-546-00057-9 , pp. 219, 309
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 '25 " N , 12 ° 20' 6.7" E