The Palazzo Dario is a palace located between the Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff and the narrow Rio delle Torreselle on the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Dorsoduro , of the city of Venice , Italy. The palace was built in the Venetian Gothic style and was renovated in Renaissance style. ^[1]

History [ edit ]

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 Regnier ? 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 Scuola di San Rocco ) in the dining room on the second piano nobile , looking down to the garden, as well as a great deal of stabilization and replacement of marble on the facade. ^{[8] [9]}

In 1908 the painter Claude Monet created impressionist depictions of Palazzo Dario, including canvases at the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Museum of Art of Wales . ^{[10] [11]}

Gallery [ edit ]

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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 [ edit ]

• Kit Lambert , producer and manager of The Who , who owned the Palazzo in the early 1970s.

References [ edit ]

Sources [ edit ]

• Dario Palace. Venice. JC-R Net retrieved 3 October 2007
• Norwich, John Julius (1989). A History of Venice . New York, Vintage Books 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.

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