Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano

In the mid-seventeenth century the patrician Filippo Bon commissioned the architect Baldassare Longhena the project for a grandiose palace overlooking the Grand Canal. The monumental project, however, proved too ambitious for the Bon fortunes. The building, in fact, is not yet finished at the architect's death in 1682, and shortly after, due to the inability of the family to bear the considerable costs of the construction site, jobs are blocked and the factory remains incomplete. The building completed a century later by the Rezzonico family, the successor to Bon. Will this family gave its name to the palace. Jobs are completed in just six years, in time to celebrate their unstoppable social ascent culminated in 1758, when Charles, son of Giambattista was elected pope with the name of Clement XIII. The parable of Rezzonico is nevertheless very short and consumes already with the next generation. No male heir, the family dies in 1810 with the death of Abbondio. During the nineteenth century the building changed ownership several times. Among his recent tenants, there are the famous poet Robert Browning - who here spends the summers of 1887 and 1888 and died in December 1889 - and the great composer Cole Porter, who lived there from 1926 to 1927. Since 1936 the building houses the museum of eighteenth Century Venice. Inside a charming environmental construction they are exposed furniture, paintings and sculptures by one of the happiest seasons of European art with masterpieces by Canaletto, Guardi, Longhi, Tiepolo and Rosalba Carriera.

In the mid-seventeenth century the venetian architect Baldassarre Longhena received from the patrician Filippo Bon in commissions for a magnificent building on the Grand Canal completed a century later by the Rezzonico family, Which gives the palace its name. Later on, it changed many owners, including the Inglese painter Robert Barrett Browning in the nineteenth century (son of the poet Robert Browning), and in the twenties of the twentieth century the musician Cole Porter who lived here. Since 1936 it hosts the Museum of Eighteenth Century Venice. This charming environmental construction displays furniture, paintings and sculptures of one of the happiest seasons in European art with among others masterpieces by Canaletto, Guardi, Longhi, Tiepolo and Rosalba Carriera.