Ca' Rezzonico (Venice)

Italy / Veneto / Venice / Calle Bernardo (Dorsoduro), 3192-93
 palace, museum
Palazzo Rezzonico

In 1649, Filippo Bon decided to replace two old houses of his family with a new large palace, designed by Baldassarre Longhena. While the influence of Jacopo Sansovino and his Palazzo Corner della Ca'Granda on the Venetian palace architecture and especially on the Rezzonico palace is unmistakable, Longhena's plastic design of the upper floors goes a step further. The Venetian tripartite floor plan still dominates much of the building, but is not invisible on the façade any more, as all nine window axis with their independent balconies are of equal dimensions and design. Above a bossed ground floor with a portico rise two upper floors with the ionic respectively corinthian order, a mezzanine floor and a massive cornice. venedig.jc-r.net
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca'_Rezzonico
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Coordinates:   45°26'0"N   12°19'35"E

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  • Ca' Rezzonico is a fine baroque palazzo built in the mid 17th century for the Bon family by Baldassare Longhena. The Bon family, due to deaths, suffered finiancial difficulties and construction wa abandoned. It was later purchased and completed by the Rezzonico family, adorning it with fine furniture and decoration. It now houses the "Museo del Settecento Veneziano", the museum of 17th century Venice.
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