The Palazzo Venezia is a palazzo (palace) in central Rome, Italy, just north of the Capitoline Hill. Its name recalls that it once served as the embassy of the Republic of Venice. The palazzo faces piazza Venezia and via del Plebiscito a Roma. Vi ha sede il Museo nazionale di Palazzo Venezia e, al n. 3 della omonima piazza, la Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte.
Begun in 1455, the building manifested some of the first Renaissance featur...
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The Palazzo Venezia is a palazzo (palace) in central Rome, Italy, just north of the Capitoline Hill. Its name recalls that it once served as the embassy of the Republic of Venice. The palazzo faces piazza Venezia and via del Plebiscito a Roma. Vi ha sede il Museo nazionale di Palazzo Venezia e, al n. 3 della omonima piazza, la Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte.
Begun in 1455, the building manifested some of the first Renaissance features in a building in Rome; although the overall aspect is of a massive, defensible medieval structure with battlemented crown.
It was built around the medieval tower at the right of its facade and incorporated within its mass the ancient Church of San Marco founded by Pope Marcus in 336 and dedicated to the Evangelist who would become protector of Venice, completely rebuilt in in 833 and often modified since.
Much of the stone to build the palazzo was quarried from the nearby Colosseum, a common practice in Rome until the 19th century. The...
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