The particular facade is to be attributed to the genius of the well-known architect Jacopo Sansovino who interpreted the pro-papal character of the owners and created, in his Roman style, a small "revolution" at an architectural level in Venice in the mid-sixteenth century. We can safely say that it was the engine of a new style of Venetian palace.
Among the distinctive features we find the ashlar base, the small balconies inserted in the light of the windows, the regular colonnade, the very long cornices that cut the building horizontally: all these elements cancel the traditio
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