Tuesday, January 31, 2017

PALACE OF THE GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF VENICE

PALAZZO DELLE ASSICURAZIONI GENERALI DI VENEZIA
1902/06 Arturo Pazzi (XIX/XX centuries) and Alberto Manassei (1855/1939) with the participation of Guido Cirilli (1871/1954) for Marco Besso
The idea of replicating the structure of Palazzo Venezia across the square in fifteenth-century Venetian style was Giuseppe Sacconi's (1854/1905)
Built on the site of the destroyed Palazzo Nepoti and Palazzo Torlonia by Carlo Fontana
On the FAƇADE “Lion of St. Mark” of the sixteenth century from the Walls of Padua
On the right side of the building there is a PLAQUE commemorating the site of the house where the divine artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475/1564) lived and died

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