Palazzo Donà delle Rose is a palace in Venice, located in the San
Polo district, not far from Campo San Stin.
The building is home
to the "Bernardo Canal" elementary school, merged into the "Francesco
Morosini" comprehensive school in the 2009-2010 school year following
the scholastic sizing of the historic center from which four
comprehensive schools were born.
The Donà family had the building built in the 16th century and owned it until the family branch died out. In 1818 Angelo Sasso bought it and had it renovated. Later it became the property of the city of Venice. Today there is a primary school that bears the name of Bernardo Canal.
The palace's main façade, plastered and painted pink, faces the Rio
de Sant'Agostin and shows influences from the architect Mauro Codussi.
The four-storey house consists of a ground floor, a mezzanine above and
two main floors. There is a wide dormer window on the roof. As with most
palaces in Venice, the façade is divided into three parts. The central
part is separated from the two outer parts by Istrian limestone
half-columns with Ionic capitals; such half-columns also delimit the
facade at the corners. The individual floors are separated by cornices
made of the same material.
The ground floor features an ogival
portal to the water flanked by two pairs of square windows. On the
mezzanine sit six rectangular windows and in the centre, above the
portal to the water, a large family coat of arms of the Donàs with a
doge's horn above.
The eye-catcher of the façade is the quadruple
arched window with a projecting balcony on the first main floor. It is
flanked by two pairs of rectangular single windows with rounded tympana
above. Under each of these individual windows there is a circular piece
of Istrian limestone. Blind round windows sit above all windows of the
first main floor, one above each single window and three above the
quadruple window. The second floor also has a quadruple arched window in
the center and a pair of single rectangular windows on the sides. The
dormer with quadruple rectangular window sits in the middle above a
serrated eaves. There is a large chimney cap on each side of the dormer
and there are small towers on the corners of the roof. All windows,
including the blind ones, are framed with Istrian limestone.