Galleria Franchetti Ca d'Oro

The filigree façade of the Ca’ d’Oro at one of the best-known palazzi at Canal Grande, represents Venetian ornamented Gothic art at its best. Baron Giorgio Franchetti left the palace together with its great art to the state of Italy in 1916. Besides paintings of the Venetian school of the 15th-17th centuries, the richly adorned and often originally preserved rooms of the palace also show statues, medals, ceramics and bronze works of the Renaissance era. Among the outstanding masterpieces are... “St. Sebastian” by Mantegna as well as paintings by the Venetians Antonio Vivarini, Vittore Carpaccio, Tizian, Tintoretto and of the Flemish school, “Venetian Vedute” by Francesco Guardi. Tullio Lombardo’s enchanting “Young Couple” is one of the most important sculpture works at the turn of the 16th century. The partly preserved picture cycles at the outside walls of some Venetian palazzi, such as the Titian at the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (1508), are indeed remarkable. more