Palazzo Papadopoli

The Palazzo Papadopoli is a Baroque-style palace located on the Canal Grande of Venice, between Palazzo Giustinian Businello and Palazzo Donà a Sant'Aponal in the Sestiere of San Polo, Venice, Italy. Coordinates: 45°26′12″N 12°19′55″E / 45.436781°N 12.332043°E

Palazzo Papadopoli

History

The palace was commissioned in the middle of the 16th-century by the Coccina family from the architect Giangiacomo dei Grigi, son of Guglielmo dei Grigi. This family from Bergamo had recently joined the Venetian patriciate.^[1] The palace was complete by 1570.

In 1748, the palace came to hands of the Tiepolo family.^[2][3] In 1745, the palace and remaining painting collection was sold to the elector of Saxony for 100,000 zucchini. The paintings were moved to the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden.^[4] In the 1700a, the piano nobile was decorated by Giandomenico Tiepolo with frescoes of The charlatan and The Minuette .^[5] His father, Giambattista Tiepolo circa 1750, also putatively painted one ceiling.^[6][7][8]

The palace changed hands during 19th century from Valentino Comello in 1837, whose wife Maddalena Montalban was jailed by the Austrians for a year; to Bartolomeo Stürmer, Austrian general; to countsNiccolò and Angelo Papadopoli in 1864. The family from Corfu, entered the patriciate in 1791. between 1874-1875, it housed Girolamo Levi, who along with Michelangelo Guggenheim and Cesare Rotta completed a Neoclassical refurbishment with gardens.^[9][10] Rotta frescoed the ballroom. In 1922, it was inherited by the family of Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga. The palace is being converted to a luxury hotel.^[11]

References

1. Brusegan p. 62
2. Brusegan p. 64.
3. Palazzo Coccina Tiepolo Papadopoli su venezia.jc-r.net
4. Brusergan, page 64.
5. Fasolo
6. veneziajcrnet
7. Giambattista Tiepolo su venezia.jc-r.net
8. Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at it:Palazzo Papadopoli; see its history for attribution.
9. Fasolo
10. brusegan, page 64.
11. veneziajcrnet

Sources

• Guida d'Italia – Venezia ed. Milano, Touring Editore, 2007. ISBN 978-88-365-4347-2.
• Brusegan, Marcello (2007). Newton & Compton, ed. I palazzi di Venezia. Roma. pp. 62–64. ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2. Brusegan.
• Fasolo, Andrea (2003). Arsenale editrice, ed. Palazzi di Venezia. pp. 76–77. ISBN 978-88-7743-295-7. Fasolo.
• Boulton, Susie; Catling, Christopher. Mondadori, ed. Venezia e il Veneto. p. 64. ISBN 978-88-04-43092-6. Boulton e Catling.