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The Browning Palace on the Grand Canal
Unknown, 1893, Photogravure
The Browning Palace on the Grand Canal
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24977
Title
Palazzo Rezzonico ora Browning sul Canale Grande [The Rezzonico (now the Browning) Palace on the Grand Canal]
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Unknown
Date
1893
Size
35.0 x 23.5 cm
Type
Photogravure
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Ferdinando Ongania [1842 - 1911] was an Italian antiquarian bookseller, with a shop in St. Mark's Square in Venice. From 1861 until his death in 1911 he devoted himself almost entirely to the printing of illustrated art books. His love of Venice inspired him to record the architecture of his beloved city.
Ca' Rezzonico, in the Dorsoduro district, is one of the grandest palaces on the Grand Canal, dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and houses the Museo del Settecento Veneziano, the Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice.
Ca' Rezzonico was the last home of the poet Robert Browning. In 1888 his son Pen Barrett Browning bought the palazzo, and Browning spent his last months living in a mezzanine apartment off the courtyard. The poet died there on 12 December 1889. There is a stone plaque on the wall of the building which remembers the poet 'Roberto Browning' and quotes his lines:
Open my heart and you will see / Graved inside of it, 'Italy'.
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