Casa dei Tre Oci
Casa dei Tre Oci, also known as Casa di Maria, is a neo-Gothic palace on Giudecca whose facade reads like a personal monument. It was designed in 1912–1913 by the Bolognese painter Mario de Maria as his own house, and its “three occhi” are explained as the three large windows: his son, his wife, and himself—while a smaller upper window represents his then-daughter Silvia, who had died young. The name turns on Venetian language too: “eye” is òci, giving the house its distinctive identity across the Giudecca Canal from the Church of the Zitelle. The building also carried working art-world momentum. In the 1960s, Fulbright scholars Wolf Kahn, William T. Bradshaw, Richard Miller, and William Eddelman lived and worked here, and it was even known as the Casa de Maria during those years. …
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