Palazzo Donà della Madoneta, also known as Palazzo Donà Dolcetti, is an architecture of Venice, located in the San Polo district and overlooking the Grand Canal between Casa Sicher and Palazzo Donà in Sant'Aponal.
Palazzo Donà has origins in the XIII century, when it was owned by
the Signolo family.
It was later owned by the Donà family and the
Dolcetti family.
In the 19th century it took the name of
Madoneta, when a bas-relief representing the Virgin with Putto was
placed on the façade.
The building, which is quite small in size, is characterized not only
by the small sculpture inserted on the mezzanine level, but also by the
noble floor, the entire length of which is occupied by an octaphorus,
made up of round arches on ancient columns with inserts modern.
The top floor shows an original 15th century loggia with coupled
columns; the two openings with parapet are from a later period.
On the surface of the facade there are paterae and other decorative
elements from the Venetian-Byzantine era.