Palazzo Moro Lin (San Marco)
Palazzo Moro Lin (also called the Palace of the Thirteen Windows ) is a palace in Venice, in the Veneto region of Italy . It is located in the Sestiere San Marco , overlooking the Grand Canal , between the Palazzetto Da Lezze and the Palazzo Grassi , opposite the Palazzo Giustinian .
history
Sebastiano Mazzoni built the palace for the Venetian painter Pietro Liberi around 1670. The painter died in 1691 and the palace was bought by Antonio Lin , who decorated it with frescoes , which no longer exist today, and other objects of art, and also saw at the turn of the 17th century . in the 18th century suggested adding one storey to the building. Around 1942, the industrialist Enrico Ghezzi from Milan bought the palace from the Venetian family Pascalato .
description
The building has four floors and the facade is symmetrical. On the ground floor there are seven round arches facing the Grand Canal, which form a protego ; the middle one is slightly smaller than the others. The two main floors and the third floor from the 18th century each have 13 individual windows, between which pilaster strips are attached for decoration . The window openings on the main floors are, like those on the third floor, rectangular, but set in arched frames, the middle one being larger than the outer one. The ledge that separates the first floor from the ground floor has a parapet with balusters , while the eaves are serrated.
The frescoes by Antonio Bellucci , Antonio Molinari and Gregorio Lazzarini can still be seen in the interior of the palace today.
swell
- Marcello Brusegan, I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Crompton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 .
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Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 39.5 ″ E