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The Palazzo Morosini Brandolin is a 
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-style palace located at the corner with the Rio di San Tomà , near Palazzo Tiepolo and across the canal from Ca' d'Oro
The Ca' d'Oro or Palazzo Santa Sofia is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. One of the older palaces in the city, its name means "golden house" due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls. ...
on the Grand Canal, in the Sestieri of San Polo, Venice
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, Italy.
History
The palace was commissioned in the second half of the 15th century by the aristocraticMorosini family
The House of Morosini was a powerful Venetian noble family that gave many doges, statesmen, generals, and admirals to the Republic of Venice, as well as cardinals to the Church.
History
One legend says the family reached the Venetian lagoon i ...
, but later transferred to the Brandolini, then Lago, then Topan families. Stylistically, the facade resembles that of the Ca' Foscari.Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at :it:Palazzo Giustinian Persico; see its history for attribution.
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