Palazzo Nervi-Scattolin is an architecture of Venice, located in the San Marco district, in Campo Manin. It is the headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia.
A pre-existing structure dating back to 1883 had already been thought
of as the headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia.
However, in 1970, it was replaced to build the new building, inaugurated
in 1972: a choice not without controversy, which led to a difficult
implementation process.
The architects who were entrusted with
the design were Pier Luigi Nervi and Angelo Scattolin, from whom the
building takes its name.
Exteriors
The most important part of the building is the facade,
facing the campo: it appears to break with the architectures of the
other sides of the campo, which are in false antique style, re-proposing
the Venetian Gothic style, despite being from the nineteenth century.
The facade of Palazzo Nervi-Scattolin is very modern, three floors
high, with an important bronze gate on the ground floor, the work of the
sculptor Simon Benetton, and, on the two noble floors, an uninterrupted
series of squared openings cut by pillars.
On the back, the
second facade overlooks Campo San Luca: it maintains the original
eighteenth-century lines, in harmony with the others facing there and in
alchemy with the twentieth-century parts of the building.
Interior
Inside, the result of an architecturally daring project by
Nervi, it is characterized above all by a grandiose helical staircase in
steel, wood and reinforced concrete, at the base of which are placed two
sculptural works by Arturo Martini: Farmer with ears, Hercules with skin
of the lion (1910).
There are many works of art of a pictorial
nature on display in the halls of the building:
San Michele
Arcangelo, Venetian school of the seventeenth century
The music
school, Pietro Longhi
Portrait of a solicitor, Alessandro Longhi
Council of the Gods, Jacopo Tintoretto
Last Judgement, Giambattista
Tiepolo
Venetian gentleman, Domenico Tintoretto
Sketch of
Paradise, Domenico Tintoretto (?)
Furthermore, in the historical
library of the Cassa di Risparmio, illuminated manuscripts and ancient
volumes are kept.