Palazzo Corner Spinelli Canal Grande Venezia sole

The Palazzo Corner Spinelli is a palace in

Venice Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

, northern Italy, located on the Grand Canal, in the

sestiere A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the title of (). Formed a ...

San Marco San Marco is one of the six sestiere (Venice), sestieri of Venice, lying in the heart of the city as the main place of Venice. San Marco also includes the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Although the district includes Piazza San Marco, Saint Mar ...

. It stands across the canal from the

Palazzo Querini Dubois The Palazzo Querini Dubois, also known as ''Giustinian Querini'' is a Renaissance-style palace in located on the Grand Canal, between the Palazzo Bernardo a San Polo and the Palazzo Grimani Marcello in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice, Italy. ...

. The palace was commissioned in the late 15th century by the aristocratic Lando Family, and built on designs by

Mauro Codussi Mauro Codussi (1440–1504) was an Italian architect of the early-Renaissance, active mostly in Venice. The name is also rendered as ''Coducci''. He was one of the first to bring the classical style of the early renaissance to Venice to replace th ...

. The present facade, helps introduce

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

geometric style to Venice for its day, was designed by Codussi between 1497 and 1500; compare it with Codussi's

Ca' Vendramin Calergi Ca' Loredan Vendramin Calergi is a 15th-century palace on the Grand Canal in the ''sestiere'' (quarter) of Cannaregio in Venice, northern Italy. It was commissioned by the patrician Loredan dynasty, namely Andrea Loredan, and paid for by Doge ...

. In the 16th century, the new owners, the Corner family asked

Michele Sanmicheli Michele Sanmicheli, sometimes also transcribed as Sammicheli, Sanmichele or Sammichele (Verona, 1484There is no certainty about the date of his birth. Vasari reports 1484, while architectural historian Giulio Sancassani, through a study of his fat ...

to reconstruct the interior. An interior fireplace was designed by

Jacopo Sansovino Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance arc ...

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* * {{Authority control Houses completed in the 16th century Corner Spinelli Corner Spinelli Renaissance architecture in Venice

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