Palazzo Dario
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The Palazzo Dario was built in the 1480s for Giovanni Dario. The architect was possibly Pietro Lombardo, who reintroduced the fashion for marble cladding, which had been popular in the 13th century. Such façades were very expensive and a sure sign of the owner's wealth. The asymmetric and gently leaning façade with its marble inlays make the Palazzo Dario one of the most attractive palazzi in Venice.
Between 1838 and 1842 the Palazzo Dario was owned by Rawdon Lubbock Brown (1803-83), an English scholar who had come to Venice in 1833 to look for the grave of Thomas Mowbray, the banished Duke of Norfolk. Brown fell in love with the city and stayed here until his death, fifty years later. "I scarcely wake in the morning but I thank God that he has let me spend my days in Venice; and sometimes of an evening, when I go to the Piazzetta, I am afraid to shut my eyes, lest when I open them I should find it had all been a dream." |
Palazzo Dario
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