GASPARI, Antonio
(b. ca. 1660, Veneto, d. after 1730, Castelguglielmo)

Ca' Zenobio: Façade

1690s
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Fondamenta del Soccorso, Venice

This large Baroque palace was designed by Gaspari over a pre-existing 14th-century building. The last floor of the long, austere and imposing façade is decorated with an enormous curved tympanum in Roman style, and on the fist floor with a large three mullioned window with a continuous projecting balcony. The façade hides a complex C-shaped plan, opening out to the rear onto a large garden.

The interior was decorated by the most brilliant artists in Venice, Louis Dorigny, Luca Carlevaris and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Abbondio Stazio was responsible for the complex stucco decoration.

The picture shows the frontage of the palace on Canal Carmini.