Palazzo Dario
The Palazzo Dario is a palace located between the
History
The palace was remodelled after 1486 by a follower of Pietro Lombardo for the patrician Giovanni Dario, Secretary to the Venetian Senate, diplomat, and merchant.[2] After Dario's death in 1494, it passed to his daughter, Marietta, who was married to Vincenzo Barbaro, the son of Giacomo Barbaro and owner of the neighboring Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff.[3][4] Marietta's sons received possession of the house in 1522. Before that time, the Senate rented it on occasion as a residence for Turkish diplomats.[5]
The land-side of Palazzo Dario rises on a small square shaded by trees, the Campiello Barbaro, named in honor of the patrician Barbaro family who lived there.[6] The English art critic John Ruskin was particularly entranced with and wrote about the palace's Gothic marble-encrusted oculi. The corner treatments of the palace resemble those found in the Palazzo Priuli a San Severo. The rear facade of the palace on the Campiello Barbaro has Gothic arches of the fifth order.[7]
A large project of renovation was undertaken at the end of the 19th century, when the palace belonged to the Countess de la Baume-Pluvinel, a French aristocrat and writer under the name of "Laurent Evrard". She was pleased to surround herself with French and Venetian writers, one of whom — Henri de Régnier — is commemorated by an inscription on the garden wall, saying "In questa casa antica dei Dario, Henri de Regnier—poeta di Francia—venezianamente visse e scrisse—anni 1899-1901". The Countess is responsible for the staircase, the external chimneys, the majolica stoves, and the fine carvings (vaguely reminiscent of the
In 1908 the painter
Gallery
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Palazzo Dario in 2004
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Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff & Palazzo Dario
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Palazzo Dario (1908) by Claude Monet
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Land-side facade
See also
- Kit Lambert, producer and manager of The Who, who owned the Palazzo in the early 1970s.
References
- ^ Palazzo Dario, Venice. JC-R.Net
- ^ Tiepolo, MF. 2002. "I Greci nella Cancelleria veneziana: Giovanni Dario", I Greci à Venezia: Atti del convegno internazionale di studio, 5–7 November 1998. Venice. 257-314.
- ^ ASV Atti Notarile b.1183 f.248, b. 1185 f.51v.
- ^ Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, pg.370, Franz Babinger, Translated by Ralph Manheim, 1978, Princeton University Press
- ^ Marino Sanudo, in Diarii, XX:543, 540, for August 1515; XXII: 455, for August 1516; and XXIII:361 for December 1515.
- ISBN 1-56458-861-0
- ^ Palazzo Dario, Venice. JC-R.Net
- ISBN 1-902669-28-2
- ISBN 0-19-820501-5
- ^ Venice, Palazzo Dario
- National Museum Wales. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
Sources
- Dario Palace. Venice. JC-R Net retrieved 3 October 2007
- ISBN 0-679-72197-5
- Buckley, Jonathan. "The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto" retrieved 3 October 2007
- Tiepolo, Maria Francesca. 2002. "I Greci nella Cancelleria veneziana: Giovanni Dario", I Greci a Venezia: Atti del convegno internazionale di studio, 5–7 November 1998. Venice. 257-314.