Palazzo Giustinian Recanati is an architecture of Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district and overlooking the Giudecca Canal, just to the left of Palazzo Clary.
Palazzo Giustinian was built in the 16th century to be the residence
of a branch of the Giustinian family, linked by marriage to the
Morosinis.
Through blood, it passed to the Recanati, a family
originally from Badia Polesine and enrolled in the Venetian patriciate
in the 17th century.
Currently the building is well preserved in
all its parts and still belongs to the descendants of the Giustinian
Recanati family.
Palazzo Giustinian Recanati has three floors. The facade has, on the
ground floor, a large portal on which the stone coat of arms of the
Giustinians hangs.
On the noble floor, the presence of round
arched openings accompanied by stone balconies and inscribed in
rectangular frames stands out: two pairs of single-light windows on the
sides and, centrally, a large four-light window supported by small Ionic
columns.
An attic mezzanine, surmounted by a notched cornice, is
opened by a series of eight small square windows.
The rear facade
of the building has neoclassical lines, due to an eighteenth-century
intervention, probably the work of Antonio Diedo. This facade overlooks
a small garden on the Ognissanti stream, from which it is separated by a
wall, on which stands a 19th-century statue representing the Madonna and
Child.
Internally the building is lavishly decorated with
eighteenth-century stuccos and antique furnishings.