Ca' Vendramin Calergi

The Palazzo Vendramin - Calergi is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice. It was built by Mauro Codussi in the years 1481-1509. He became famous especially by Richard Wagner, who died there in 1883. Today the building houses the Municipal Winter casino.

For the architectural history of Venice, this palace is of paramount importance in terms of the facade design. The aim was to establish a connection between Venetian tradition and the then modern sense of the Renaissance, between the pillars round -arm row of old Venetian school and the rectangular colonnaded structure of the Renaissance. Codussi had developed a system, the horizontal colonnades order as accurately proportioned front of the portico of the window to put that developed between the two, a new unit that was hardly recognizable that there were two different principles. These windows are called in Venice since this Palazzo Vendramin by its builder " Codussi window ".

Introduced in the Venetian architecture of Codussi principle of superposition of old traditional round arches and Renaissance forms has repeatedly Jacopo Sansovino in his Biblioteca Marciana.

The palace is the place of death of the composer Richard Wagner. 1995 there was opened a Richard Wagner Museum.

The Cologne Meuser house was constructed in 1885 following his example.