Palazzo Venier dei Leoni

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Palazzo Venier dei Leoni as seen from the Grand Canal

The Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice was built in the second half of the 18th century, but never completed. It is located on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere near the Santa Maria della Salute church and now houses the Peggy Guggenheim Collection .

history

Model, which should give an impression of the originally planned palace

The construction was planned by Lorenzo Boschetti , the architect of the church of San Barnaba , on behalf of the Venetian family Venier , who provided doges to the city in the 15th and 16th centuries . The plan included the design ideas with which Andrea Palladio in particular had shaped the cityscape in the 16th century and Baldassare Longhena in the Baroque. The construction project turned out to be too ambitious for the family's financial means, so that the construction was canceled after the construction of a first floor. In his layout he shows two preferences of the urban development of Venice in the 18th century: the building type of the theater and the arrangement of a garden.

A model of the palazzo is in the Museo Correr . More recent studies of traditional elevation drawings have shown that the completion does not correspond to the planned first floor, but only part of it was realized. The rumor of the financial shortage of the Venier family is supplemented by the thesis that the immediate neighborhood was affected by the extensive construction activity and that construction was therefore stopped. The addition of "dei leoni" to the name is based on the two stone lion figures on the side of the terrace on the Grand Canal, which can be traced back to the fact that the Veniers kept a lion in their garden.

museum

Graves of Peggy Guggenheim and her dogs in the garden

The building fragment had different owners. At the beginning of the 20th century it was owned by Luisa Casati , patron of the arts and long-time lover of the writer Gabriele D'Annunzio , who celebrated festivals there, but soon sold the house again. In 1949 the Palazzo was acquired by Peggy Guggenheim , who housed her extensive art collection there and lived there until her death in 1979. She bequeathed the collection and palazzo to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation , which opened the building to the public in 1980 as a museum. In the garden are the graves of the last owner and those of her pets.

literature

  • Richard Goy: City in the lagoon. Living and building in Venice . Knesebeck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89660-030-3 .
  • Thomas M. Messer (Ed.): The Peggy Guggenheim Collection . The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Goy: Stadt in der Lagune (1998), p. 45
  2. ↑ The Palace with an illustration of the model; Peggy Guggenheim Collection (accessed July 9, 2010)
  3. ↑ Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (accessed on March 30, 2020)
  4. ↑ Thomas M. Messer (Ed.): The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (1983), pp. 6, 7)

Web links

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Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 50 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 53 ″  E