''Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara'' is a palace in Venice, located in the

Dorsoduro Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy. Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola. Its name derives from the Italian for "hard ridge", due to its comparati ...

district and overlooking the Grand Canal, between the Contarini Palazzi degli Scrigni and Corfù and Palazzo Querini alla Carità, not far from the

Gallerie dell'Accademia The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery o ...

and in front of Palazzo Giustinian Lolin.

History

The palazzo was built during the second half of the 17th century to be the home of the prominent

Mocenigo family The House of Mocenigo was a Venetian noble family of Lombard Dalmatian origin. Many of its members were doges, statesmen, and soldiers. Notable members * Tommaso Mocenigo (1343-1423), ''doge'' 1414-1423 * Pietro Mocenigo, ''doge'' from 14 ...

. In this century, the family commissioned to paint frescoes on the internal courtyard walls, a work now lost. In the last years of the 18th century, the palace passed to the Gambara family due to the marriage between Francesco Mocenigo and Eleonora Gambara. Giambattista Canal and

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 ...

painted the interiors. Today Palazzo Gambara, owned by the Venice Industrialists Association, is a congress venue.

Architecture

The palazzo looks like a three-storey neoclassical building, with a mezzanine between the ground floor and the main floor. The facade is asymmetrical and almost completely devoid of architectural details, with the rectangular portal moved to the right half. The main opening of the main floor corresponds with the portal: a

serliana A Venetian window (also known as a Serlian window) is a large tripartite window which is a key element in Palladian architecture. Although Sebastiano Serlio (1475–1554) did not invent it, the window features largely in the work of the Italian ar ...

surmounted by a triangular tympanum and accented by a projecting balcony. On the sides of the serliana, there are rectangular windows surmounted by arched pediments. These windows are also arranged asymmetrically, four to the left of the main opening and only one to its right. Inside, in the large hall on the main floor, there are the allegorical frescoes by Giambattista Canal, created around 1769 are still preserved.

Gallery

CANAL GRANDE - palazzo mocenigo gambara detail.jpg, The triangular tympanum Venice, Italy - panoramio (240).jpg, A view from across Grand Canal Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara Venice.jpg, A facade on Grand Canal

References

{{Reflist Houses completed in the 15th century Palaces in Sestiere Dorsoduro Neoclassical architecture in Venice