Ca' Tron is a palace in

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, facing the

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. Part of the ''

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'' (quarter) of Santa Croce, it is situated between the Palazzo Belloni Battagia and

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, near the church of

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. It is owned by the

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and houses the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments. The palace was rebuilt in the late 16th century to the design of an unknown architect influenced by

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as the residence of the Tron family, who lived here until their extinction in the 19th century. The Tron had lived in this parish from the time of the start of the Patriciate. The family produced one Doge, Niccolo Tron in 1471, and nearly a half dozen procurators, and many other Venetian statesmen and generals. Maximilian, Elector of Bavaria, stayed here in 1684; and in 1775 Andrea Tron entertained the

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with a magnificent ball. Senator Francesco Tron, grandson of Andrea, died here in 1793. In the 19th century the palace nearly fell into ruin.Il fiore di Venezia ossia i quadri, i monumenti, le vedute ed i
, Volume 3, by Ermolao Paoletti, page 200. It has been owned by the

since 1972.

Description

The building is an L-shaped plan, with a ground floor, a

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and two piani nobili. The latter, differently from the others, have a façade in

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. The left side of the façade is shorter, and thus the portal and the central openings of the floors are asymmetrically placed. The floors have eight windows, the four central ones joined to form a quadruple

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. The small rear façade, which faces a small garden with a well at the center, features two quintuple mullioned windows with parapets in correspondence of the piani nobili, while at the ground floor there is a single opening divided by two columns. The interior has somewhat dilapidated frescoes by Louis Dorigny, a ''Diana and Endymion'' by

Jacopo Guarana 225px, ''Allegory of the virtues Mocenigo'', 1787 Jacopo Guarana (October 28, 1720 – April 18, 1808) was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque period who was born in Verona. He was active mainly in Venice and its mainland territories. In ...

, and stucco decorations.

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* {{Coord, 45.44182, 12.329862, scale:2000, format=dms, display=title Houses completed in the 16th century

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Renaissance architecture in Venice House of Tron