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Ca' Rezzonico

Ca' Rezzonico

Ca' Rezzonico (Italian pronunciation:) is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsodurosestiere of Venice, Italy. It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista Tiepolo. It is a public museum dedicated to 18th-century Venice (Museo del Settecento Veneziano) and one of the 11 venues managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. The palazzo was originally designed by the architect Baldassarre Longhena in 1649 for the .