Ca' Pesaro
Ca’ Pesaro is a Baroque marble palace facing the Grand Canal, and it matters because it shows how Venice’s great seventeenth-century architects shaped the city’s waterfront—then turned that prestige into a public art setting. The palace’s overall design is credited to Baldassarre Longhena, whose work includes the church of Santa Maria della Salute and Ca’ Rezzonico. Construction began in 1659 from the landside, with the courtyard completed by 1676; by 1679, the Grand Canal façade had already reached the second floor. When Longhena died three years later, the Pesaro family brought in Gian Antonio Gaspari to finish the project, and the building was completed in 1710. Architecturally, Ca’ Pesaro adapts a Sansovino motif into what looks like double loggias across the main frontage, set above a boldly rusticated basement. …
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