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Gaspari's addition was completed to house the family's grand ballroom which included a magnificant interior of Baroque stucco work and master paintings of ancient Roman subject matter, such as Sebastiano Ricci's Rape of the Sabine Women[3]. Henry James considered the Barbaro's ballroom to be the finest example of Venetian Baroque interiors, and the author also chose to include a description of the ballroom in his novel The Wings of the Dove.[4] For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ...
In the 18th century an elegant library was created on the 3r floor of the palace with a ceiling that incorporated a rich stucco design. In the center of the libray's ceiling was placed Giovanni Battista Tiepolo masterpiece The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, a painting that now resides in the Metropolitain Museum of Art in New York. [5]
Notes
^ Alvise Zorzi, Venetian Palaces, Rizzoli, New york, 1989 ISBN 0-8478-1200-6; p. 222
Ma i viaggi col suo mecenate significano anche l'incontro con i "grandi" del tempo: Michelangelo, Sebastiano Serlio, Giulio Romano, Bramante.
Inizia così il periodo più intenso dell'attività palladiana, che si concretizzerà in opere di assoluta bellezza, dal palazzo Chiericati alla villa Barbaro di Maser, dalla "Malcontenta" a Mira alle chiese veneziane del Redentore e di S.
Andrea Palladio: l'attività palladiana, si concretizza in opere di assoluta bellezza, dal palazzo Chiericati alla villa Barbaro di Maser, dalla Malcontenta a Mira alle chiese veneziane del Redentore e di S. Giorgio Maggiore, fino alla notissima Rotonda.
The palazzo today follows this form, although it was not finished until 1756 by the architect Giorgio Massari, who had been brought in to oversee the completion of the project by the new owners - the Rezzonico Family.
Palazzo Labia, is a Venetian baroque palazzo or palace built at the beginning of the 18th century.
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