Example sentences for: rezzonico

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  • The Ca’ Rezzonico is itself a fine specimen of the 18th-century Venetian art for which it is now a museum.

  • North of Ca’ Rezzonico, the Scuola Grande di San Rocco is Venice’s richest confraternity, in a fine 16th-century chapter house next to its own church.

  • When the last of the wealthy Rezzonico family disappeared, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning bought the palazzo, and the poet died in a first-floor apartment in 1889.

  • The extravagant ballroom and soaring allegorical frescoes like Giambattista Tiepolo’s Merit between Virtue and Nobility in the “Throne Room” (actually for Rezzonico weddings) and others, more wistful, by Guardi all catch the tone of a declining Venice and the frivolous lives of the idle rich.

  • To the west of the Accademia, the Ca’ Rezzonico is another canal-side design of Longhena, completed in the 18th century and now a museum (reopened in 2000) dedicated to those swan-song years of the Venice’s Most Serene Republic, la Serenissima.


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