Immagine della sede - Cà Rezzonico

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Cà Rezzonico — (Archive Venipedia/Bazzmann)

Magnificent rooms with fine frescoes, exceptional furniture, tapestries on the walls, Murano glass chandeliers, this and more can be found in this museum.
But the most surprising element is certainly the presence of a pharmacy: an authentic apothecary's shop with majolica jars, a laboratory and all the original equipment necessary for the preparation of medicines. And to think that until 1908 it could be found in campo San Stae, signposted Farmacia Ai do San Marchi.

The Rezzonico palace in 1936 was used as the seat of the Museum of the Venetian eighteenth century and the eighteenth-century works owned by the Civic Museums of Venice recured for the setting, as well as a collection of paintings given by Ferruccio Mestrovich.

Among the various rooms we find: the ballroom used for parties, a typically eighteenth-century element, whose space was obtained by exploiting the height of the two noble floors by eliminating a floor and some windows, the wedding allegory room whose name derives from a ceiling fresco by Giambattista Tiepolo, the pastels

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