Palazzo Merati: Highly Decorative Piano Nobile
Cannaregio, Venice
- Piano nobile with private water gate entrance
- Reference: ve208
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PALAZZO MERATI, overlooking the lagoon and the Rio dei Mendicanti, was built at the beginning of the 17th century, with its twin building overlooking the Rio, probably by the famous architect Andrea Tirali, for Stefano Protasio, a wealthy Venetian merchant.
The palace overlooking the lagoon was bought by Francesco Merati in 1690. The Merati was an ancient, “cittadinesca” (citizen) family of Venice. The other palace, overlooking the Rio, was bought by Camillo Berlendis, a rich silk merchant, in 1679.
Francesco Merati, shortly after buying the palace, commissioned the rich stuccowork decorations from the two famous Ticino stucco artists Abbondo Stazio (1663-1757) and his pupil Carpoforo Mazzetti Tencalla (1685-1743), the authors of the stucco decorations in Palazzo Albrizzi, at San Cassiano, and of Palazzo Sagredo (1718), at Santa Sofia, where the staircase was painted by Pietro Longhi. Other stucco work was done in the Scuola dei Carmini. More historical information
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