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

Palazzo Pisani Moretta: Façade

1440-60
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Canal Grande, Venice

This palace was built around the middle of the 15th century in typical Venetian late Gothic style. The façade is made up of the ground floor, with a double water gate for the use of the palace by two families, and of two upper floors. (The balustrade and the addition of the last floor are modifications made in the 19th century.) The rigorous composition is characterised by the rich quatrefoil decorations of the two central six-lancet windows, recalling the windows of the Palazzo Ducale.