The unfinished palazzo : life, love and art in Venice : the stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim

Book 2017

Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was abandoned with only one storey complete. Empty, unfinished, and in a gradual state of decay, the building was considered an eyesore. Yet in the early 20th century the Unfinished Palazzo's quality of fairytale abandonment, and its potential for transformation, were t...

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