Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara is a palace in Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district and overlooking the Grand Canal, between the Palazzi Contarini degli Scrigni and Corfù and Palazzo Querini alla Carità, not far from the Gallerie dell'Accademia and in front of Palazzo Giustinian Lolin.
This building was built during the second half of the 17th century to be the residence of the Mocenigos. In this century the family commissioned Pordenone to fresco the walls of the internal courtyard (a work now lost), while in the last years of the 18th century, when for the marriage between Francesco Mocenigo and Eleonora Gambara which took place in 1678 the palace passed to the Gambaras, they called to fresco the interior Giambattista Canal and Jacopo Guarana. Today Palazzo Gambara, owned by the Association of Industrialists of Venice, is a congress venue.
Palazzo Gambara is a three-storey neoclassical building with a
mezzanine between the ground floor and the main floor. The facade is
asymmetrical, with the rectangular portal moved to the right half,
almost completely devoid of architectural interest. In correspondence
with it the main opening of the noble floor: a serliana surmounted by a
triangular tympanum and characterized by a projecting balcony. On the
sides of the serliana there are five single lancet windows surmounted by
small arched gables. These too are arranged asymmetrically, four to the
left of the main opening and only one to its right.
Inside, in
the large hall on the main floor, the most precious works of the
building are conserved, the allegorical frescoes by Giambattista Canal,
created starting from 1769.