Mocenigo Palace is a stately building in Venice, located at number 1992 in the Santa Croce district, along the salizada of San Stae.
It is the seat of the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo - Study Center of the History of Textile, Costume and Perfume.
Palazzo Mocenigo, which already existed in the sixteenth century, is, in its current characteristics, of a seventeenth-century imprint, the result of the renovation works that the Mocenigo family carried out on the building at the beginning of the seventeenth century, to live there until the early twentieth century.
The building consists of five levels: ground floor, mezzanine, two noble floors and an attic mezzanine.
The building has two similar facades, one on the Salizada di San Stae, one on the rio: both should be noted because in the center, on the main floors, they are opened by two overlapping serlianas, which give the facades great elegance with a Renaissance flavor.
The facade on the Salizada differs from the other because, to the left of the main body, it has a smaller body which lacks the second noble floor and the mezzanine, but there is also the beautiful serliana on the first floor; the facade on the river instead has the third Serliana on the ground floor, which acts as a portal on the water.
Internally the palace has well-preserved frescoes on the noble floors.
It was 1945 when the last member of the family, Alvise Nicolò Mocenigo, bequeathed the building to the municipality of Venice, which became an art gallery, still active today, together with the offices of the Study Center for the History of Textiles and Costume, opened in the 1980s.
This donation has been challenged since the end of the seventies by Alvise Coletti, descendant by female line of the Mocenigo family, who claimed its co-inheritance. The judicial process continued until the early 1990s when the Court of Venice recognized the legitimacy of the requests of Coletti, who had died in the meantime, and awarded him compensation
Mocenigo Palace Museum - Study Center for the History of Textile, Costume and Perfume
Address: Sestiere di S. Marco, 3099, 30124
Phone: 041 721798
Site:
https://mocenigo.visitmuve.it/Location inserted by
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