Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff is a Venetian civil building located in the Dorsoduro district and overlooking the Grand Canal between Ca' Dario and Casa Salviati.
The building, initially built according to the canons of Venetian - Byzantine architecture, was then restructured by adding Gothic elements during the 15th century. In 1894 Eleonora Duse lived on the top floor of the building, as a guest of Alexander Wolkoff Mouronzov, who had recently bought the stable interior.
Made almost entirely of red bricks, the uneven façade stands out for its extraordinary vertical development: it is in fact divided into a ground floor, a mezzanine, a noble floor and two upper floors. The arrangement of the decorative elements, apparently devoid of order, makes it difficult to analyze the main front, which is dominated by the gracefulness of the hexaphora on the main floor, framed by an indented frame. Outline elements only the arched water portal, in Gothic style, the numerous single and multi-lancet windows of the upper floors. Analyzing the upper floors, it can be seen that, unlike the Gothic three-light and single-lancet windows on the top floor, which reflect the general style of the building, the four-light and two-light windows on the fourth floor are characterized by a marked anachronism, due to their inflected shape. Pateras and coats of arms are modern works.