Palazzo Zaguri

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Palazzo Zaguri, front facade on Campo San Maurizio

Palazzo Zaguri , also Palazzo Pasqualini , is a palace in Venice in the Italian region of Veneto . It is located in the Sestiere San Marco with a view of Campo San Maurizio . The building from the 14th century closes the square to the east and also gave its name to the adjacent bridge over the Rio San Maurizio Malatin , which connects the area around the church of San Maurizio with that around the church of Santa Maria del Giglio .

history

The Pasqualini family , originally from Milan , who had made great fortune with the silk trade , had the palace built in the 14th and 15th centuries. The events surrounding the construction of the palace testify, in addition to the contemporary chronicles, the heraldic coat of arms of the Pasqualinis , which can still be seen on the facade; it shows the letter "P" with three bars below it. Another gender symbol of the family can be seen on the ring of the fountain in the courtyard.

The Pasqualinis , who had a feeling for the reputation of art, commissioned many sculptures and paintings from renowned artists who worked in Venice between 1400 and 1500. In the course of a few decades they created an important art collection in the rooms of their own palace on Campo San Maurizio . Among the works in the Pasqualini collection are some paintings by Gentile da Fabriano , some works from the workshop of Titian and a few portraits that Antonello da Messina painted in 1475 during his stay in Venice: the portrait of the wealthy Venetian jeweler Michele Vianello and that of a family member, Alvise Pasqualini . The well-known art connoisseur of the 16th century, Marcantonio Michiel , left a testimony of the greatness of this art gallery with enthusiastic words.

There he described a large painting of the Last Supper, which is attributed to the workshop of Titian. A part of it, on which a head is depicted in a natural position, was created by Giorgione . He added notes on works by Gentile da Fabriano: a gilded stucco work and a portrait of a young man in the habit of a cleric. A head of St. Jacob was also created by Giorgione's workshop, using the portrait “Christ in San Rocco”, whereas Giovanni Bellini realized half a figure of the Madonna with the child. Two heads, one by Alvise Pasqualini , father of Antonio Pasqualini , the other by Michiel Vianello , were created by Antonello da Messina in 1475; he describes the liveliness of the painting.

The Prince of Montenegro , Giorgio Cervnovich and his wife (daughter of Antonio Erizzo ) stayed in the palace of the Pasqualinis for a long time after they had escaped from their principal. Because of a plot instigated by his brother, the prince's northern parts of Venetian Albania fell victim to the Turks. The prince found a place of refuge in Venice, where he settled down and gained access to the patriciate of the city.

The Pasqualinis owned the palace until 1521, when Antonio Pasqualini sold it to Alvise Priuli for 5400 ducats . The palace came into the possession of a branch of the Priuli family and in 1565 Giacomo Priuli , a nephew of Alvise Priuli , sold part of it to the well-known legal advisor Vincenzo Pellegrini , whose sister Marina was first married to Girolamo Zaguri . The ownership of this part of the palace fell to the family of the latter, the Zaguris , by will . The other part of the palace remained with the Priulis for a few centuries and then fell to the same Zaguris in the 18th century who in 1740 " could explain to the Dieci Savii sopra le Decime that they owned the entire palace".

The Zaguris , after whom the palace is named today, originally came from Kotor , where they were known under the family name "Saraceni" (Eng .: Saracens ). They came to Venice at the end of the 15th century. In 1504 they received the Venetian citizenship and in 1646 they were admitted to the local patriciate. At the beginning of the 19th century, Pietro Antonio Zaguri had the church of San Maurizio rebuilt not far from the palace. The Zaguri family died out in 1810 with the death of the last male descendant, the literary figure Pietro II. Marco Zaguri . The palace fell to the Braganzes and in the 20th century to the city of Venice, which put it up for sale in 2007. Today the Palazzo Zaguri is again in private hands and serves as a hotel. Recent work has found intact parts of a well, which is marked on some maps from the 16th century.

description

The rear facade facing the Rio San Maurizio Malatin out

The building is characterized by two facades of the same or almost equal importance, both in Gothic style . One points to Campo San Maurizio , the other to Fondamenta Corner Zaguri on the Rio San Maurizio Malatin . The 14th century building has lost some of its original features, especially on the ground floor.

The front facade to Campo San Maurizio has two quintuple keel arched windows , the more valuable ones on the first main floor. These are flanked by a number of single windows and a double window on the second main floor. This facade faces the Palazzo Molin Campo San Maurizio and the Palazzo Bellavite Baffo . On the far right on the ground floor is a keel arch portal.

The rear facade shows the remains of a cavana , an indication that the footpath was built there later, as well as a six-fold and a five-fold keel arched window on the main floors. The imposing six-fold window on the first floor is actually a four-fold window that is flanked by two individual windows. It is framed by a checkered frieze , divided by three columns with capitals and rosettes , and surrounded by two side pilasters .

Individual references and comments

  1. ↑ a b Archivio veneto . Volume 5: Deputazione di storia patria per le Venezie . Venice 1873. p. 104.
  2. ↑ a b Francesco Zanotto: Nuovissima guida di Venezia e delle isole della sua laguna . Brizeghel, Venice 1856. p. 176.
  3. ↑ The family name also occurs in the singular "Pasqualino".
  4. ↑ a b c Corner Zaguri (Ponte e Fondamenta) in: Giuseppe Tassini: Curiosità veneziane, ovvero origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venezia . VIII edition. Filippi, Venice 1970.
  5. ↑ This painting is now believed to have disappeared, but Marcantonio Michiel noticed it in the first decades of the 16th century in the house of Antonio Pasqualini, along with another portrait by Antonello da Messina depicting Michele Vianello .
  6. ↑ Marcantonio Michiel, Jacopo Morelli: Notes of the opere di disegno nella prima metà del secolo XVI esistenti in Padova, Cremona, Milano, Pavia, Venezia . Bassano 1800. pp. 56-59.
  7. ↑ Giuseppe Gullino: Erizzo, Antonio . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . Treccani.it. 1993. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ Davide Busato, Paola Sfameni: Lo scavo a Palazzo Zaguri San Marco in Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV). No. 24 (2008).
  9. ^ Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 . P. 363.

Web links

Commons : Palazzo Zaguri  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Jan-Christoph Rößler: Palazzo Zaguri . venezia.jc-r.net. Retrieved December 17, 2019.

Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 57.5 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 55.3 ″  E