Palazzo dei Camerlenghi
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Palazzo dei Camerlenghi is a
History
The palazzo was built in the fifteenth century and finished in 1488.
The palazzo currently houses the regional main offices of the Italian
Description
The three-storey palazzo has a pentagonal floor plan which follows the shoreline of the Grand Canal. It has tall windows with centrings, divided by false columns and decorated with friezes. There were once polychrome marble and porphyry slabs, now lost. The medallion on the facade once incorporated a painted St Mark's lion.[2]
Due to the Venetian tradition that, when leaving their post, magistrates would leave a religiously themed painting and a portrait in their former office, the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi came to house numerous artworks.[3] Sometimes these paintings expressed social-political notions of civic virtue.[4] These were removed during the French occupation; some eventually returned to Venice, mostly to the Gallerie dell'Accademia.
See also
- Rialto Bridge
- Canal Grande
- Palazzo dei Dieci Savi
Sources
- Brusegan, Marcello (2007). I palazzi di Venezia. Newton Compton. pp. 108–109.
- Cottrell, Philip: Corporate Colors: Bonifacio and Tintoretto at the Palazzo Dei Camerlenghi in Venice
- Hamilton, Paul C. The Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 42 (1983) 258–271.
- Kölmel, Nicolai: The Queen in the Pawnshop: Shaping Civic Virtues in a Painting for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice.In: Burghartz et al: Sites of Mediation. Connected Histories of Places, Processes, and Objects in Europe and Beyond, 1450–1650. Brill, Leiden 2016. doi: 10.1163/9789004325760_006
References
- ^ Hamilton P.C., “The Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 42 (1983) 258–271.
- ^ N. Kölmel: The Queen in the Pawnshop: Shaping Civic Virtues in a Painting for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice. p. 99
- ^ P. Cottrell: Corporate Colors: Bonifacio and Tintoretto at the Palazzo Dei Camerlenghi in Venice
- ^ N. Kölmel: The Queen in the Pawnshop: Shaping Civic Virtues in a Painting for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice.