Museo Querini Stampalia

Open: 10-18. Closed Mondays. €10. 
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The 16th century Palazzo Querini Stampalia is home to the Museo Querini Stampalia, an important collection of art and artefacts, which were left to the city of Venice in the 1860s by Count Giovanni Querini Stampalia, the last descendant of his family. The collection includes the count's furniture, a large collection of paintings and an extremely valuable library. 

The count made the proviso that the art collection could be opened to the public provided that the rooms of the palazzo were maintained in their original condition. The museum is, perhaps, most famous for Giovanni Bellini's masterpiece, The Presentation in the Temple, and Gianbattista Tiepolo's magisterial portrait of Daniele IV Dolfin, a Procurator of Saint Mark's. 

The entrance and ground floor of the palace were dramatically reconfigured by the Venetian architect, Carlo Scarpa, in the early 1960s. 

Daniele IV Dolfin, Giambattista Tiepolo, 1750s