Vitturi Palace

 


Venice: Palazzo Vitturi - 19 kB


General remarks:

Date:13th, 14th century
Address:Castello 5246
Current use:hotel
Overview map:locate

Description:

At least at the exterior well-conserved example of a late byzantine palace and important part of the Campo Santa Maria Formosa. It seems to have been lately restored. Parts were converted into a hotel. Note the typical decorations in stone and patere directly above the pointed arches.
The palaces still has neoclassic frescoes in some of the piano nobile rooms.

Additional pictures:


Piano nobile arches of third order with sculptured disks
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Literature

Arslan (1970) p. 31-34
Concina (1995) p. 69

 

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