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Palazzo Pisani Moretta is a palace situated along the Grand Canal in

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(in the sestiere of San Polo), between

Palazzo Tiepolo The Palazzo Tiepolo is a Renaissance-style palace located between the Palazzo Soranzo Pisani and the Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal, in the Sestieri of San Polo, Venice, Italy. History The palace was commissioned in the second hal ...

and Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza.

History

Built in the second half of the 15th century by the

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, the palace soon became the residence of a branch of the noble Pisani family (the Pisani Moretta branch). The palace was renovated, modified and extended over the following centuries, finally taking on its current aspect in the 18th century. In fact many of the valuable interior decorations date back to the 18th century. Past guests to the palace included important historic figures such as Tsar Paul I of Russia, Joséphine de Beauharnais and

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. Palazzo Pisani Moretta remained in the Pisani family until it died out in 1880 but the building is still owned privately. The interior rooms were decorated by

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artists such as Tiepolo,

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 ...

, Gaspare Diziani and

Giuseppe Angeli ''Immaculate Conception with Saints'' (ca 1760) Giuseppe Angeli (Venice 1709- Venice, 1798) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque, known for depicting both genre and religious subjects. Biography He trained in the studio of Giambattista P ...

. The palace once housed, among other things,

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

's monumental painting ''

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'', which was viewed here by Goethe in 1786 (diary entry from October 8 of that year) and acquired by the National Gallery, London, in 1857, where it now hangs. The palace is said to have housed a ceiling painting called ''The Chariots of Aurora'' by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675–1741), which was restored and installed in the Library of George Vanderbilt's Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina, in the United States. It hosts an annual masquerade ball

Il Ballo del Doge {{italic title ''Il Ballo del Doge'' ("The Doge’s Ball") is a Venetian masquerade ball, one of the many events held annually during the Carnival of Venice. The ball itself is held in the 15th-century Venetian palace of Palazzo Pisani Moretta, s ...

, held during the Carnival period.

Description

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The façade of Palazzo Pisani Moretta is an example of Venetian

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floral style with its two floors of six-light

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with ogival arches, similar to those found in the loggia of the Doge's Palace flanked by two single windows. The ground floor has two central pointed arched doorways opening on to the canal.

External links

Palazzo Pisani Moretta, official website
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