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 arc ...

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

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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, Secretary to the Venetian Senate, 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

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who lived there. The English art critic

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was particularly entranced with and wrote about the palace's Gothic marble-encrusted

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. 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

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) 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. In 1908 the painter

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created impressionist depictions of Palazzo Dario, including canvases at the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Museum of Art of Wales.Venice, Palazzo Dario
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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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Dario Dario is a masculine given name, etymologically related to Darius. Given name *Dario Allevi (born 1965), Italian politician *Dario Argento (born 1940), Italian film director * Dario Badinelli (born 1946), Italian triple jumper *Dario Bellezza (1 ...

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