Doge's Palace (Venice, Italy) : View of the main entrance off the court loggia

Creator:

Bono, Bartolomeo, ca. 1400-ca. 1464
Lombardo, Pietro, ca. 1435-1515
Rizzo, Antonio, b. before 1440, d. 1499 or after

Published/Created:

Venice, Veneto, Italy
1309-1424

Date Depicted:

5/19/1996
500 AD - 1499 AD

Materials:

marble
stone

Notes:

The Doge's Palace, Venice, has façades which date from 1309-1424, designed by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Buon. [Bono] The palace, started in the ninth century, several times rebuilt, and completed in the Renaissance period, forms part of that great scheme of town-planning which was carried out through successive centuries. The façades, with a total length of nearly 152 m (500 ft), have open arcades in the two lower storeys, and the third storey was rebuilt after a fire in the sixteenth century, so as to extend over the arcades. This upper storey is faced with white and rose-coloured marble, resembling ornate windows and finished with a lace-like parapet of oriental cresting. The arcade columns, which originally stood on a stylobate of three steps, now rise from the ground without bases, and the sturdy continuous tracery of the second tier of arcades lends an appearance of strength to the open arches. The capitals of the columns, particularly the angle capital which was eulogised by Ruskin in The Stones of Venice, are celebrated for the delicate carving in low-grained marble. The whole scheme of columned and pointed arcades, with its combination of carved capitals and long horizontal lines of open tracery, is of that unique design which can only be termed Venetian Gothic." p. 506.

Variant Titles:

Palazzo Ducale di Venezia

Topics:

Architecture -- Italy -- 14th century -- (YVRC)
Architecture -- Italy -- 15th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Gothic (Medieval)

Culture:

Italian

Accession Number:

1A2-I-VE-PD-M1

Genre:

architecture (AAT)
palazzi (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

architectural exteriors; New Testament; rulers and leaders; government carving ; construction buildings; dwellings; houses; town houses; palazzi; buildings; houses; official residences; palaces

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Module Three

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
5/19/1996

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4152

OID:

10158567

PID:

digcoll:1867173