Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana

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Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana

Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana is a palace in Venice in the Veneto region of Italy . It is located in the Cannaregio sestiere with a view of the Grand Canal between the Palazzo Michiel del Brusà and the confluence of the Rio dei Santi Apostoli .

history

The palace is best known for being the residence of the British consul Joseph Smith , who was also the painter Canalletto's agent for selling his paintings to the British.

Originally, the palace is a byzantine - gothic building, but when it was British Embassy and residence of Joseph Smith, the latter left him in period style remodel: 1743 the painter and engraver designed Antonio Visentini a new facade and supervised the construction work, the 1751 have been completed. The new facade only reached up to today's first main floor.

In 1784 ownership of the palace passed to Count Giuseppe Mangilli, who added the above-mentioned floors and commissioned Gian Antonio Selva to remodel the interior . This created a luxurious and unique ambience in the classical style, which is still perfectly preserved today.

description

The classicist palace has three full floors and a mezzanine floor above the ground floor and under the roof . The facade closes at the top with a serrated eaves .

On the ground floor there is a round arched portal to the water with a tympanum above it. It is flanked by two pairs of square individual windows, over which rectangular individual windows lie on the mezzanine.

The first main floor has a round arched window in the middle, the rounded tympanum of which is on the second main floor. As on the lower floors, two pairs of individual rectangular windows are placed next to it, each of which has a triangular tympanum. The three middle windows are equipped with a common, protruding balcony . The arched window sits between two pillars, with two half-pillars attached to each of the individual windows. There are also two rectangular pairs of windows with triangular tympanums on the second floor, but without any further decorations. The mezzanine floor under the roof also has four individual rectangular windows.

A striking cornice runs between the first and second floors .

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Web links

Commons : Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 '24.3 "  N , 12 ° 20' 8.6"  E