Palazzo d'Anna Viaro Martinengo Volpi di Misurata
Palazzo d'Anna Viaro Martinengo Volpi di Misurata , also Palazzo Talenti d'Anna Volpi , is a palace in Venice in the Italian region of Veneto . It is located in the Sestiere San Marco with a view of the Grand Canal between Palazzo Tron and Casa Marinoni , opposite the Palazzo Donà a Sant'Aponal .
history
As the name of the palace suggests, it has changed hands many times throughout its history. It was built at the beginning of the 16th century by order of the Talenti family and soon fell to the wealthy Flemish merchant Martino d'Anna ( van Haanen ). The expansion of the palace, which took place around the middle of the 17th century, is due to the following owners, the Viaros , an old, Venetian noble family. In the course of the 18th century the palace passed into other hands again, first by inheritance, to the Venetian patrician family Foscarini and then to the Count Martinengo from Brescia , whereas in the 19th century it came into the possession of Count Giovanni Conti , who decreed that it became a retirement home after his death. In 1917 the palace finally came into the ownership of the entrepreneur Giuseppe Volpi , who was made Count of Misrata in 1925 .
description
At first glance, the facade of the palace appears to be divided into four sections with two different structural typologies, but if you look more carefully you can see that the leftmost section was later added to the building.
The original palace was built in the Renaissance style in a form that was common to many other palaces in the lagoon city. The stone ground floor shows a portal to the water and above it is a mezzanine that was much higher than usual. In the middle of the only main floor there is a quadruple arched window in a rectangular frame and with a shared, protruding balcony . It is flanked by two pairs of similar single windows, each with its own balcony. Between these individual windows there are noble coats of arms in relief . At the top, the facade is closed off by a mezzanine floor under the roof with square windows, which are positioned as on the floor below. The main floor and the mezzanine under the roof are separated by a cornice and a large area originally painted with a fresco by Pordenone . Today the fresco has completely disappeared.
The part of the palace that was added later, the left "quarter", almost exactly repeats the middle part of the facade of the original structure, only that there are two portals to the water and two individual windows on the mezzanine floor under the roof.
Inside, the main floor is lavishly furnished because it contains contemporary furniture and paintings. The main staircase leads from the entrance hall on the ground floor to the reception salon ( portego ) on the main floor. The ceiling of the large ballroom was triumphantly decorated with Tiepolo - style frescoes by the painter Ettore Tito, commissioned by Giuseppe Volpi, Count of Misrata . The names of the victorious battles of the Italian army in Tripolitania during the Italo-Turkish War are mentioned along the frieze with reference to the client's time as governor from 1921 to 1925.
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrea da Mosto: L'archivio di Stato di Venezia . Tomo II. Biblioteca d'Arte (Palazzo Ricci), Rome 1940. pp. 21-22, 68, 255.
- ↑ a b Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Rome 2007. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 . P. 343.
Web links
- Alessia Rosada, Carlos Travaini: Palazzo D'Anna Martinengo . In: Canal Grande di Venezia . Retrieved November 27, 2019.
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 9.3 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 55.5 ″ E