Palazzo Grassi

The Palazzo Grassi (1748-1772) is a palace on the banks of the Grand Canal in Venice. The architect Giorgio Massari, who built the Ca ' Rezzonico, also created him in a style between the late Baroque and Classicism. The client was the family Grassi.

Architecture

The architecture of the facade consists of three storeys, of which the lower back engages with its mezzanine floor and the rusticated stones on buildings of the 15th and 16th centuries (see Palazzo Bevilacqua et al in Verona). The side entrances of the three shared portal zone in the style of a Venetian window are surmounted by escutcheons. The piano nobile basically consists of nine reaching to the floor arched windows with small balconies in front of it; the middle window form a group of five. This is repeated on the upper floor, which, however, by its rectangular windows with overlying triangular and circular pediments ( lunettes ) separates from the central facade plane. Overall, the facade is clearly designed less plastic than most former palaces of northern Italy. This can also be good to watch the little indented side façade, which also has a three-piece portal with an overlying Venetian window.

Later owner

In 1840 the palace was sold by the family to the Grassi tenor Antonio Poggi. He was temporarily the Wiener Simon Baron Sina, who had to make extensive renovations and the first third of the 20th century the owners of the Molino Stucky, Giovanni Stucky and his son Giancarlo Stucky.

Since 1983, the building was part of the Italian Fiat group headed by Gianni Agnelli. Since 2006, the palace is owned by the French entrepreneur François Pinault, the there shows his collection of modern art.