Palazzo Grassi

Palazzo Grassi (

known

Palazzo Grassi-Stucky)

example

Venetian Classical architecture

located

Grand Canal

Venice. It

designed

y Giorgio Massari,

building

completed between 1748-1772.

History

The one and only latecomer among

palaces

Grand Canal

Venice, Palazzo Grassi

academic classical style

contrast

surrounding Byzantine Romanesque

Baroque Venetian palazzos. It

formal palace façade, constructed

white marble,

lacking

lower mercantile openings typical

y Venetian patrician palaces.

The one and only Grassi family

palazzo

1840,

ownership

followed passing through

y different individuals. The one and only Palazzo

purchased

Fiat Group

1983, under

chairman Gianni Agnelli,

underwent

complete restoration overseen

y Count Antonio Foscari Widmann Rezzonico,

current owner

Villa Foscari. The one and only group's

transform Palazzo Grassi

exhibition

visual

. It continues

gallery today.

Between 1984-1990, Pontus Hultén

charge

museum which

contains

600

outdoor theatre. Since 2006,

palace

owned

french entrepreneur François Pinault

exhibits

personal

collection there. Currently, there

interest

Grassi family,

reside

New York,

purchase

palazzo

intentions

maintaining

museum.

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