Corner Contarini dei Cavalli Palace
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General remarks:
| Date: | around 1445 |
| Address: | San Marco 3978 |
| Current use: | Corte d'Appello |
| Overview map: | locate |
Description:
A smaller example of a gothic palazzo on the Canal Grande, which was altered later. Gothic elements are only conserved on the main façade: a six-arch loggia based on the Doge's Palace in the middle and two single tracery windows on the left and right. Inbetween, the name-giving crests with sculptured sea-horses.
Towards the rio adjacent on the left, nearly all gothic elements were later replaced by round arches. Also the third floor and parts of the water floor are from a later epoch.
The interior decorations are obviously even younger. Once the mezzanine constituted the well-known casinò of the N.H. Morosini. Later, the palace passed to a branch of the Bragadin family.
A small neogothic building from 1871, the Palazzetto Tron (Memmo), is adjacent on the right.
Additional pictures:
detail of the tracery windows in the piano nobile |  |
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Literature
Concina (1995) p. 108
© 1999-2007 J.-Ch. Rößler
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