“This work is almost a portrait of a building: the imposing facade of
the Palazzo Grimani fills nearly the entire composition. Boatmen emerge
from the left and right just in front of us, adding a sense of
movement, while figures composed of dots and daubs of paint stand on
the palace’s steps. Palazzo Grimani, built between 1556 and 1575 for
Gerolamo Grimani, Procurator of San Marco, was one of the outstanding
buildings of Renaissance Venice. It was admired during the eighteenth
century and included in Antonio Visentini’s Admiranda Urbis Venetae, a
series of architectural drawings of Venetian palaces. ...”
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