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Palazzo Grimani a Santa Maria Formosa

The colossal Rape of Ganymede suspended at the centre of the Tribuna’s coffered vault
The colossal Rape of Ganymede suspended at the centre of the Tribuna’s coffered vault Photo: Sonia.mark, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

At the end of Ramo Grimani, a stone’s throw from Campo Santa Maria Formosa (square), hides the most Roman palazzo in Venice: the residence that the brothers Vettore and Giovanni Grimani — the procurator and the patriarch of Aquileia — transformed in the mid-16th century into an ancient domus, with a porticoed courtyard, stuccoes and frescoes in the Roman manner by the finest masters of the school.

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