Palazzo Soranzo Campo San Polo
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Palazzo Soranzo Campo San Polo , also simply Palazzo Soranzo , is a palace in Venice in the Italian region of Veneto . It consists of two neighboring buildings and is located in the San Polo sestiere on the east side of Campo San Polo .
history
The palace was built by the Soranzos , a noble family, from which a doge of the Republic of Venice , Giovanni Soranzo , as well as 16 “Procurators of San Marco”, came in the 14th century. It was Giovanni Soranzo who let Dante Alighieri live in this house when he was ambassador for the Da Polenta noble family from Ravenna . This building was only half the size of the current one and was gradually expanded by Giorgione in the 16th century , but nothing of his work remained.
As was the Venetian tradition, the main facade overlooked a canal, which was filled in in 1761, so that from then on the palace stood directly on Campo San Polo.
From 1987 to 2002 the palace was the seat of the Chinese seminary of the Institute for Indology and the Far East of the University of Venice with an attached library. Today the palace, which has housed all generations of the family, belongs to descendants of the Soranzos again.
description
The building consists of the old Palazzo Soranzo (the left part of the building) and the new Palazzo Soranzo (the right part of the building), both three full floors and a mezzanine floor under the roof. The two parts of the palace are in Venetian Gothic style and painted the same color so that they form a single building. However, if you look at the characteristics of the window division, you can immediately see that the part of the building on the right is the younger and was built in the late Gothic period.
The older part of the palace has two asymmetrically arranged, non-Gothic portals, which presumably date from a time before the window openings on the two main floors. The latter have two symmetrically stacked quadruple windows with marble frames, elegantly decorated with half-reliefs with symmetrical motifs of faunas and other mythological figures.
The new part of the palace, on the other hand, has only one portal, which is neither symmetrical nor Gothic (together with a small window with a lunette inserted into a frame) and shows a different window arrangement on the two main floors. On the first floor there is an eight-fold window with valuable marble decorations, whereas the second floor has a four-fold window that is reminiscent of the old part of the palace.
As for the interiors, witnesses report pieces of furniture and works of art of great value (perhaps even a painting by Giorgione), but large parts of which have now been lost.
swell
- Guida d'Italia - Venezia . 3. Edition. Touring, Milan 2007. ISBN 978-88-365-4347-2 .
- Marcello Brusegan: I Palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 .
Web links
- Official website of the Palazzo Soranzo . Retrieved October 11, 2019.
- Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Soranzo Campo San Polo . venezia.jc-r.net. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 16 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 49.3 ″ E