The Palazzo Moro Lin, also called the ''palace of 13 windows'' is a

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

-style palace on the Grand Canal, located between the Palazzo Grassi and the Palazzo da Lezze, in the sestiere of San Marco, in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

, Italy. The palace was built in 1670 by design of

Sebastiano Mazzoni Sebastiano Mazzoni (c. 1611 - Venice, 22 April 1678) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Florence, he trained in that city during 1632-33 in the studio of Baccio del Bianco. He then moved to Venice in 1648, and stayed there t ...

, and made for the painter Pietro Liberi. The palace interior has frescoes by Antonio Bellucci, Antonio Molinari, and Gregorio Lazzarini. The palace was soon bought by the Lin family. At the death of Michele Anzolo Lin in 1788, the palace was inherited by his niece Elisabetta, the wife of Gasparo Moro of San Trovaso, who afterwards called themselves Moro-Lin.Venice on Foot: With the Itinerary of the Grand Canal
by Hugh Douglas, (1907), page 282. In 1942 it was purchased by the Milanese industrialist Enrico Ghezzi.

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* {{Coord, 45, 26, 0.098, N, 12, 19, 39.5, E, type:landmark_source:frwiki_region:IT, display=title Houses completed in the 17th century Moro Lin Moro Lin Baroque architecture in Venice

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