Palazzo Orio Semitecolo Benzon
Palazzo Orio Semitecolo Benzon is a palace in Venice in the Veneto region of Italy . It is located in the Dorsoduro sestiere overlooking the Grand Canal between Ca 'Santomaso and Palazzo Salviati .
history
The palace from the 14th century was built by the very old noble Orio family . After the construction of the neighboring Palazzo Salviati in the 20th century, the two palaces were connected.
description
The predominantly Gothic facade shows its own characters on each of its four floors. The first main floor follows the style of the 14th century, the second that of the 15th century, while the top floor was added in the 19th century. The first main floor is characterized by an airy multiple window , which consists of a quadruple three-pass window , to which similar single windows are attached to the left and right. The individual windows are separated by pilasters and the two attached individual windows have protruding stone balconies, while the quadruple window shows balusters in the middle and outer walls with half-reliefs. On the second main floor there is a double three-pass window with a protruding stone balcony on the left, next to which there are two similar single windows without a balcony on the right. The third floor shows the same window layout, but the windows are simple and rectangular. The facade is crowned by a serrated eaves above which a dormer window with simple, rectangular double windows is offset to the left from the center .
The keel arch portal on the left side of the first floor has a serrated frame and bears a shield of the Benzoni family , which dates from the 14th or 15th century and is made of Istrian limestone .
Individual evidence
- ^ Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 . P. 275.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 51.2 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 58.5 ″ E