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The beginning of another day with a ride past Palazzo Barbarigo.
Constructed in the second half of the 16th century, derived from the aggregation of two buildings, the façade preserves the fresco decorations by Camillo Bellini, executed at the end of the 16th century. It is one of the rare surviving examples of a Venetian house façade that still preserves some external pictorial decorations.
In Venice, as well as in other cities, it was a common practice to fresco the facades of stately homes. At the beginning of the 16th century the city showed a rather colorful appearance, while today the palaces that conserve at least the remains of the wall paintings are reduced to only a few units; this is also the result of a prolonged negligence until exhaustion, which has left forever disappear even what could in some way be preserved. Little do we know of the frescoed Gothic palaces, de Barbari shows only two of them (the Giustinian-Persico and the Pisani-Moretta) but they certainly had to be much more numerous.
(Notes from VeniceWiki )
The Madonna della Misericordia can only be seen from the Grand Canal or the other side of it.
DSCF6701.jpg
The beginning of another day with a ride past Palazzo Barbarigo.
Constructed in the second half of the 16th century, derived from the aggregation of two buildings, the façade preserves the fresco decorations by Camillo Bellini, executed at the end of the 16th century. It is one of the rare surviving examples of a Venetian house façade that still preserves some external pictorial decorations.
In Venice, as well as in other cities, it was a common practice to fresco the facades of stately homes. At the beginning of the 16th century the city showed a rather colorful appearance, while today the palaces that conserve at least the remains of the wall paintings are reduced to only a few units; this is also the result of a prolonged negligence until exhaustion, which has left forever disappear even what could in some way be preserved. Little do we know of the frescoed Gothic palaces, de Barbari shows only two of them (the Giustinian-Persico and the Pisani-Moretta) but they certainly had to be much more numerous.
(Notes from VeniceWiki )
The Madonna della Misericordia can only be seen from the Grand Canal or the other side of it.