Ca' Pesaro: Façade on the Canal Grande
by LONGHENA, Baldassare, Photo
Originally the imposing residence of the Pesaro family, now a museum, this is one of the most important Venetian Baroque buildings. It was completed in 1710, after Longhena’s death, by Antonio Gaspari, who also designed the left side of the building, partially visible here.
Longhena devised the complicated base of rusticated stonework decorated with exotic animals, above which rise two registers of great arched windows flanked by columns.