ARCHITECT, Italian
(active mid-15th century in Venice)

Palazzo Bernardo: Façade

c. 1442
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Canal Grande, Venice

This palace was built for two families belonging to the Bernardo house. The two water gates and the two main floors (one of which is less important than the other) of the homogeneous façade indicate that the interior is actually divided into two dwellings. The façade is framed with vertical bands of hewn stones alternating with small spiral columns and dominated by the big six-mullioned window on the second floor flanked by single light windows with interesting openwork and intertwined arches.