Palazzo Secco Dolfin

The Palazzo Secco Dolfin, San Marco

View from the east over the Rio di Ca'Foscari, on the right the Secco-Dolfin Palace with the garden in front

The Palazzo Secco Dolfin , often simply called Palazzo Dolfin , which leads to all sorts of confusion, is a Venetian palace in the sestiere Dorsoduro , the main facade of which overlooks the Rio di Ca'Foscari. The gardens on this alley were created by demolishing a Palazzo Renier. The palace, built by the Secco family, was acquired by a branch of the Dolfin in 1621 . In 1955, the university acquired the palace and had it restored. Today it serves as the university's guest house and its Aula Magna.

A piano nobile with a continuous balcony rises above a low water floor , with the width of the facade of the palace being taken up by a ballroom, the salone. Inside is a ceiling fresco by Niccolò Bambini (1651–1736), which was created between 1710 and 1715 (according to other sources, 1714) and depicts an allegory of Venice. The room lies behind the facade on the Rio and is only illuminated through the five large windows. It can be entered through a large main entrance and two side entrances. It measures 10 by 17 m and is 7 m high. The vaulted ceiling makes it look even higher.

The quadrature painting is usually attributed to Antonio Felice Ferrari (1667-1720), but is also traced back to a visit by Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway in 1708. From 1725 to 1730 episodes of Roman history after Titus Livius were written by Giambattista Tiepolo , but these were scattered in the 19th century and replaced by historicizing mirrors. The paintings are now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna , the Metropolitan Museum New York and the St. Petersburg Hermitage . At the time the contract was awarded to Ferrari, Daniele III. Head of the Dolfin family, who was considered the best speaker of his time.

literature

Giuliana Pradella: La decorazione pittorica di Ca 'Dolfin , Venice 1980.
Adriano Mariuz: La "Magnifica Sala" di Palazzo Dolfin a Venezia. Gli affreschi di Nicolò Bambini e Antonio Felice Ferrari , in: Arte Veneta 35 (1981) 182-186.
George Knox: Tiepolo triumphans. The Roman history cycles of Ca 'Dolfin, Venice , in: Apollo 134 (1991) 301-310.

Web links

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

Palazzo Dolfin , website by Jan-Christoph Rößler

Remarks

↑ Ateneo Veneto 34 (1996), p. 8.
↑ Annika Höppner: Representation of the Venetian nobility at the beginning of the 18th century. The cycle of images in the Saloni of Ca 'Dolfin and Ca' Sandi , in: Stephanie Hahn, Michael H. Sprenger (Ed.): Herrschaft - Architektur - Raum. Festschrift for Ulrich Schütte on his 60th birthday , Lukas, Berlin 2008, pp. 183–203, here: p. 188.
^ Ferrari, Antonio Felice , Treccani.
↑ Annika Höppner: Representation of the Venetian nobility at the beginning of the 18th century. The cycle of images in the Saloni of Ca 'Dolfin and Ca' Sandi , in: Stephanie Hahn, Michael H. Sprenger (Ed.): Herrschaft - Architektur - Raum. Festschrift for Ulrich Schütte on his 60th birthday , Lukas, Berlin 2008, pp. 183–203, here: p. 198.

45.43525 12.325544444444Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 6.9 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 32 ″ E

[1] Ateneo Veneto 34 (1996), p. 8.

[2] Annika Höppner: Representation of the Venetian nobility at the beginning of the 18th century. The cycle of images in the Saloni of Ca 'Dolfin and Ca' Sandi , in: Stephanie Hahn, Michael H. Sprenger (Ed.): Herrschaft - Architektur - Raum. Festschrift for Ulrich Schütte on his 60th birthday , Lukas, Berlin 2008, pp. 183–203, here: p. 188.

[3] Ferrari, Antonio Felice , Treccani.

[4] Annika Höppner: Representation of the Venetian nobility at the beginning of the 18th century. The cycle of images in the Saloni of Ca 'Dolfin and Ca' Sandi , in: Stephanie Hahn, Michael H. Sprenger (Ed.): Herrschaft - Architektur - Raum. Festschrift for Ulrich Schütte on his 60th birthday , Lukas, Berlin 2008, pp. 183–203, here: p. 198.