Palazzo Bonfadini Vivante is an architecture of Venice, located in the Cannaregio district and overlooking the Cannaregio canal. Today it houses the Hotel Ca' Bonfadini.
The palace was built in the 16th century to be the residence of the
Bonfadinis, a family of Tyrolean merchants (Colle Santa Lucia), who
later entered the Venetian patriciate.
In the mid-17th century,
the facade still visible today was completed.
In the 19th century
the Jewish Vivante family took over, initially as tenants, and gave the
building its second name. In the first half of the 20th century, the
building suffered a long period of deterioration, from which it was
redeemed with an important restoration work carried out by the new
owners in the 1990s.
In 2017 purchased by the company finalba
seconda s.p.a.
The building has been restored and the original
frescoes and stuccos that today adorn the interiors that have become the
hotel's luxurious suites have been recovered.
Today it is part of
the I Palazzi Hotels group.
The facade of Palazzo Bonfadini is rather simple. Arranged on three
levels plus an attic mezzanine, it has two rectangular portals on the
ground floor; on the noble floor (second floor) there is the most
important element, a serliana with a metal parapet, to which correspond,
on the first floor, three quadrangular openings of smaller dimensions,
also with a parapet.
Finally, at the top, a thin serrated cornice
and the presence of a stringcourse should be noted.
The interiors
have greater artistic value, in which grandiose pictorial works are
hidden, created between the 18th and 19th centuries: a series of stuccos
by Giuseppe Castelli accompanies a cycle of neoclassical frescoes, whose
authors include Giuseppe Borsato and Giambattista Canal .
The
internal frescoes date back to the Bonfadinis, in particular in the
Camera degli Sposi, and to the Vivante family who had the entire noble
floor frescoed with classical and symbolic representations.