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Venice is built on alluvial mud, and most buildings in the city were (and mostly still are) supported by large numbers of timber piles driven into the mud. Above a stone platform sitting on these, the normal building material is brick, although the Renaissance facades were usually faced with Istrian stone , a fine limestone that is not strictly ...
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Venetian Gothic is the particular form of Italian Gothic architecture typical of Venice, originating in local building requirements, with some influence from Byzantine architecture, and some from Islamic architecture, reflecting Venice's trading network. Very unusually for medieval architecture, the style is at its most characteristic in ...
Antonio Gaspari made enlargements to the building from 1694 to 1698. [2] Gaspari's building housed the Barbaro family's ballroom which included a magnificent interior of Baroque stucco -work, paintings of ancient Roman subject matter, such as Sebastiano Ricci 's Rape of the Sabine Women and works by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta .
Velma (plural velme) is a Venetian dialect term derived from "melma" (mud). It is also used by Italian scientists to refer to lagunar mudflats (also called tidal flats), such as those found in the Lagoon of Venice. They are areas of shallow lagunar bottoms which are normally submerged, but emerge at low tides.
The Ca' da Mosto sat empty for decades prior to 2019, with the high waters of the canal having breached its basement. According to an interview in The Lady, the palace is admired by Francesco da Mosto, a descendant of its eponymous former owners, and is the Venetian building he would most like to see restored.
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Giorgione (c. 1477/8–1510), painter, with Titian founded the Venetian school of Renaissance Painting Giovanni d'Alemagna (c. 1411–1450), German painter who worked in Venice Guglielmo dei Grigi (c. 1485–1550), architect and sculptor, designed the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi