The Palazzo Dario is a palace located between the

Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff is a Venetian civil building located in the Dorsoduro district and overlooking the Grand Canal between Ca' Dario and Casa Salviati. History The building, initially built according to the canons of Venetian-Byzantine arch ...

and the narrow Rio delle Torreselle on the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, of the city of

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, Italy. The palace was built in the Venetian Gothic style and was renovated in

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style.

History

The palace was remodelled after 1486 by a follower of

Pietro Lombardo Monument of the Doge Pietro Mocenigo 1481 :''Pietro Lombardo is also the Italian version of the name of the theologian Peter Lombard.'' Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino), he ...

for the patrician

Giovanni Dario Giovanni Dario (, ; 1414–1494) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian official who served multiple times as ambassador of the Republic of Venice. His family hailed from Crete, a Kingdom of Candia, Venetian colony at the time; his knowledge of Greek al ...

, Secretary to the

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, diplomat, and merchant. 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

. 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. 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 The Barbaro family () was a Patricianship, patrician family of Venice. They were wealthy and influential and owned large estates in the Veneto above Treviso.Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist art, Volume 1', Jane Turner, New York, 20 ...

who lived there. The English art critic

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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. 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 Scuola di San Rocco) in the dining room on the second ''

piano nobile ( Italian for "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, ) is the architectural term for the principal floor of a '' palazzo''. This floor contains the main reception and bedrooms of the house ...

'', looking down to the garden, as well as a great deal of stabilization and replacement of marble on the facade. In 1908 the painter

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

created impressionist depictions of Palazzo Dario, including canvases at the

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and the National Museum of Art of Wales.Venice, Palazzo Dario
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Gallery

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File:Retro Ca Dario.jpg, Land-side facade

References

Sources

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