Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi turns the Grand Canal into a kind of timeline: it was rebuilt between 1748 and 1772, after earlier ownership by the Cini family in the 1500s. In February 1605, Alamanno Aragon Hocheppan—grandson of Cosimo I—acquired the property, and the Grassi family moved in first in 1655. Designed by Giorgio Massari in a Venetian Classical, neoclassical idiom, the palace reads as academic and formal, with a white-marble façade and—unusually for a patrician house—no lower mercantile openings at ground level. The interior stairwell is frescoed by Michelangelo Morlaiter and Francesco Zanchi, while the ceiling decoration includes works by Giambattista Canal and Christian Griepenkerl. In 1951, the building became the International Centre of Arts and Costume, with the adjacent garden transformed into an open-air Teatrino, later covered in the 1960s, and closed in 1983. …
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