Museo Ca' Rezzonico
Ca’ Rezzonico is Venice’s lesson in how Baroque drama becomes domestic grandeur: it stands on the Grand Canal where the Rio di San Barnaba meets it, as a palazzo and art museum devoted to 18th-century Venice. The building work began when Filippo Bon, head of the Bon family, chose in 1649 to replace two decaying houses with a single residence. He hired Baldassarre Longhena (1597–1682), Venice’s leading proponent of Venetian Baroque—best known for designing the dome of Santa Maria della Salute. Longhena had merged the earlier structures by 1661 and brought the canal-facing facade up to the Noble floor, but completion stalled when Longhena died in 1682 and Filippo Bon’s finances failed. Filippo Bon himself died in 1712, leaving the palace unfinished and further deteriorating; the museum later became one of the 11 sites run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. …
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