Title

Doge's Palace

Alternative Title

Ducal Palace

Palazzo Ducale di Venezia

Creator

Antonio Rizzo (Italian architect, ca. 1440-ca. 1499)

Bartolomeo Bono (Venetian sculptor and architect, ca. 1400-ca. 1464)

Pietro Lombardo (Italian architect and sculptor, ca. 1435-1515)

Drafter

Cicognara, photos

City

Venice, Veneto, Italy

Location

Italy

Building Creation Date

1309 -1501 (creation)

Century

14th century

15th century

16th century

Description

Scala dei Giganti (Staircase of the Giants), plan and elevation, plans

elevations

"The Doge's Palace, Venice, has façades which date from 1309-1424, designed by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Buon. [Bono] The palace, started in the ninth century, several times rebuilt, and completed in the Renaissance period, forms part of that great scheme of town-planning which was carried out through successive centuries. The façades, with a total length of nearly 152 m (500 ft), have open arcades in the two lower storeys, and the third storey was rebuilt after a fire in the sixteenth century, so as to extend over the arcades. This upper storey is faced with white and rose-coloured marble, resembling ornate windows and finished with a lace-like parapet of oriental cresting. The arcade columns, which originally stood on a stylobate of three steps, now rise from the ground without bases, and the sturdy continuous tracery of the second tier of arcades lends an appearance of strength to the open arches. The capitals of the columns, particularly the angle capital which was eulogised by Ruskin in The Stones of Venice, are celebrated for the delicate carving in low-grained marble. The whole scheme of columned and pointed arcades, with its combination of carved capitals and long horizontal lines of open tracery, is of that unique design which can only be termed Venetian Gothic." p. 506.

Classification

Architectural Documentation

Building Type

palazzi

town houses

houses

dwellings

residential structures

Documentation Type

elevations

plans

Style/Period

Gothic (Medieval)

Cultural Context

Italian

Subject

Palaces -- Renaissance -- Italy -- Venice -- Palazzo Ducale

Source

Cicognara, Leopoldo, conte. Le Fabbriche E I Monumenti Cospicui de Venezia. Venezia: G. Antonelli, 1858, 29.

Access Rights

Public Domain

creator

Rizzo, Antonio

Bono, Bartolomeo

Lombardo, Pietro

Item sets

Architecture Illustrations

Media

https://www.myweb.ttu.edu/saschuma/31295005482137_29.jpg

Antonio Rizzo (Italian architect, ca. 1440-ca. 1499), Bartolomeo Bono (Venetian sculptor and architect, ca. 1400-ca. 1464), and Pietro Lombardo (Italian architect and sculptor, ca. 1435-1515), “Doge's Palace”, Arch Design Images, accessed November 14, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/archlib/item/18752