Palazzo Coccina Giunti Foscarini Giovannelli is a palace in Venice, located in the Santa Croce district, overlooking the right side of the Grand Canal between the church of San Stae and Ca' Pesaro.
The Renaissance palace was built for the Coccina family in the
mid-16th century, but soon afterwards came into the possession of
Tommaso Giunti, a Florentine native. He had two daughters, whom he
married to a pair of brothers, Nicolò and Renier Foscarini. He
bequeathed his possessions, including the palace, to the Foscarini
family.
The large, beautiful palace often accommodated
illustrious guests of the lagoon city: in 1709, Sebastiano Foscarini,
the then Procurator of San Marco, entertained King Frederick IV of
Denmark and Norway and organized a lavish party for him. In 1755 the
palace was rented to the Giovannellis.
Today, part of the palace
serves as a hotel, while another is divided into condominiums.
The four-story building faces the Grand Canal asymmetrically with an
annex on the left. Basically, the palace consists of two building parts,
which in turn are symmetrical in themselves. Both parts have a ground
floor, a mezzanine above, a main floor and a mezzanine under the roof.
The elements of the plastered and white painted facade correspond to
each other on the individual floors.
The right, larger part of
the building has a large arched portal to the water in its center on the
ground floor, flanked by two rectangular windows and two pairs of square
windows. On the mezzanine above, three rectangular windows flank the
portal on each side. The main floor has a large Venetian window in the
center with a projecting balcony. This is flanked on either side by two
pairs of single arched windows, also provided with projecting balconies.
The mezzanine under the roof displays a quadruple rectangular window
flanked by two pairs of single rectangular windows above the main
floor's Venetian window. All of these windows are supported by parapets
of half-columns. At the top, the facade ends with a toothed eaves.
The left, smaller part of the building has two individual windows
per floor, which are as far away from the central axis as possible.
According to the specifications of the right part of the building, these
are simple rectangular windows on the ground floor and the mezzanine
above, arched windows with a projecting balcony on the main floor and
rectangular windows with parapets of half-columns on the mezzanine under
the roof. On the roof of the left part of the building there is a wooden
terrace in the middle.
The asymmetrical side facade towards the
Rio della Rioda and the Church of San Stae is designed similarly to the
main facade. The back facade is decorated with mythological frescoes.