{"id":5236,"date":"2018-07-25T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2022-08-09T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T22:55:05","slug":"a-section-of-the-grand-canal-in-the-dorsaduro-sestiero-of-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/travel\/a-section-of-the-grand-canal-in-the-dorsaduro-sestiero-of-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Section of the Grand Canal in the Dorsaduro Sestiero of Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rightreading\/29765668488\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/836\/29765668488_43869a80c2_b.jpg\" alt=\"A Section of the Grand Canal in the Dorsaduro Sestiero of Venice\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The stretch of Venice&#8217;s Grand Canal between the Rialto Bridge and the Bacino includes some of the city&#8217;s finest buildings. Owners of these buildings invested great effort and funds into creating impressive facades facing the Canal.<\/p>\n<p>The five buildings shown here &#8212; with the dome of the church of Santa Maria de la Salute and a tiny slice of the former Abbazia di San Gregorio in the background &#8212; are, left to right, Palazzo Genovese, Palazo Benzon, Palazzo Salviati, Palazzo Barbaro, and Palazzo Dario.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I will be posting or writing more on these buildings. For now, here are some notable points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Palazzo Genovese is a 19th-century building designed to resemble a Gothic Palazzo, modeled mainly on the Ca&#8217; d&#8217;Oro.<\/li>\n<li>The Palazzo Salviati is also a late addition to the Canal (built in 1903), this time in imitation of a Renaissance building. It was owned by a glass-making family, and features a handsome large glass mosaic (added 1924).<\/li>\n<li>The Palazzo Barbaro is a true gothic construction (ca. 1440) with a quirky, assymmetrical facade.<\/li>\n<li>The Palazzo Dario is to me the most interesting of these buildings. It was modernized from an earlier gothic house in 1487 (with a couple of major restorations in later centuries). Patricia Fortini Brown, in <em>Private Lives in Renaissance Venice<\/em>, discusses it as an example of early Renaissance moving away from the traditional Gothic forms. (Unfortunately, her photo has an extreme blue cast that gives a misleading impression of the building.)I&#8217;ll have more to say about the Palazzo Dario later, but for now I&#8217;ll note that the palazzo has a reputation as a house of ill fortune. In the twentieth century, one of its owners went bankrupt, one was assassinated, and three committed suicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palazzo Genovese, Palazo Benzon, Palazzo Salviati, Palazzo Barbaro, and Palazzo Dario make up one of the finest stretches of Venice&#8217;s Grand Canal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[148,24,15],"tags":[155,149,151,153,154,150,152,147,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5755,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}