Palazzo Dario

The Palazzo Dario (center) on the bank on the Grand Canal. The palazzo to the left of it is Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff
Palazzo Dario painted by Monet in 1908, when he was residing in Venice

Palazzo Dario is a palace in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of Venice at the mouth of the Rio delle Torreselle in the Dorsoduro sestiere (quarter) on the Campiello Barbaro. The palace was built in the floral Venetian Gothic style and was renovated with Renaissance features.[1]

Rear view.

History

The palace was remodelled after 1486 by a follower of Pietro Lombardo for 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.[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]

Palazzo Dario resides on a small square, the Campiello Barbaro, named in honor of the patrician Barbaro family members who lived there. The square is shaded by trees and flanked by Palazzo Dario itself[6] The palace was noted by the English art critic John Ruskin, who described its marble-encrusted oculi in great detail. The corner treatments of the palace has similarities to 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 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, 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 palace was the subject for a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. Versions now reside in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Museum of Art of Wales.[10][11]

The building today is private property and not normally open to the public. However, an agreement between the current owner and the Venetian art museum, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, makes it available for special art exhibitions.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Palazzo Dario, Venice. JC-R.Net
  2. ↑ Tiepolo, MF. 2002. "I Greci nella Cancelleria veneziana: Giovanni Dario", I Greci à Venezia: Atti del convegno internazionale di studio, 5–7 November 1998. Venice. 257-314.
  3. ↑ ASV Atti Notarile b.1183 f.248, b. 1185 f.51v.
  4. ↑ Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, pg.370, Franz Babinger, Translated by Ralph Manheim, 1978, Princeton University Press
  5. ↑ Marino Sanudo, in Diarii, XX:543, 540, for August 1515; XXII: 455, for August 1516; and XXIII:361 for December 1515.
  6. ↑ Boulton, Susie & Catling, Christopher, "Campiello Barbaro" in Venice & the Veneto, (Dorling Kindersley, London 2001) p.135 ISBN 1-56458-861-0
  7. ↑ Palazzo Dario, Venice. JC-R.Net
  8. ↑ Venice, Martin Garrett, Signal Books, 2001, pg. 118 , ISBN 1-902669-28-2
  9. ↑ “Venice rediscovered”, John Pemble, Clarendon Press, 1995, pg. 32 , ISBN 0-19-820501-5
  10. ↑ Venice, Palazzo Dario
  11. ↑ "The Palazzo Dario". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  12. ↑ CaDario-HISTORY

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Coordinates: 45°25′51″N 12°19′56″E / 45.43083°N 12.33222°E