The Fondaco dei Tedeschi (Venetian: Fontego dei Tedeschi "The Germans' Inn") is a historical building in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the German merchant population the city.
First constructed in 1228, the building was rebuilt between 1505 and 1508, after its destruction in a fire. Its outer facade was painted by Titian and Giorgione, but thei...
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The Fondaco dei Tedeschi (Venetian: Fontego dei Tedeschi "The Germans' Inn") is a historical building in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the German merchant population the city.
First constructed in 1228, the building was rebuilt between 1505 and 1508, after its destruction in a fire. Its outer facade was painted by Titian and Giorgione, but their work has not survived the Venetian climate (fragments survive in museum collections). Its architecture is typical of the cinquecento (Italian Renaissance) style, but the basic concept (and the word fondaco) is derived from a type of building in Arab countries. Like the Fondaco dei Turchi, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi was a palazzo, warehouse, and restricted living quarters for its population, in this case mainly Germanic merchants from cities such as Nuremberg, Judenburg and Augsburg.
The German merchants arrived shortly after the building was...
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