Palazzo Barbarigo.

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A fragment of a fresco by Camillo Ballini.

The palace, composed of two buildings standing side by side, overlooks the Grand Canal and it is from a water feature that one can admire some fragments of Renaissance frescoes from the late 16th century painted by Camillo Ballini.
The Barbarigo family coat of arms and a bas-relief depicting the Madonna della Misericordia are also visible on the façade.

The building can be dated around the second half of the 16th century as evidenced by the era of the still visible coat of arms of the Barbarigo family, which also gave the residence its name.

It is composed of the aggregation of two adjacent buildings and these are to be mentioned not so much for their significant architectural features as for their facing onto the Grand Canal, in confluence with the Rio della Maddalena and for their representation of a fashion in popular in the late sixteenth century Renaissance: fresco the facades with colorful pictorial allegories. There are

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