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Palazzo Testa

Palazzo Testa on the Cannaregio canal: the small late-Gothic facade with the quadrifora and the 15th-century balcony
Palazzo Testa on the Cannaregio canal: the small late-Gothic facade with the quadrifora and the 15th-century balcony Photo: Abxbay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

On the Fondamenta San Giobbe, where the Cannaregio canal widens towards the north, this small 15th-century pointed-arch palazzo is a miniature jewel: only two floors with a mezzanine, but a piano nobile dense with trilobed openings enclosed in marble framing, and at the centre a quadrifora with balcony that is a small treatise on Venetian sculpture — corbels with lion protomes, a balustrade of little columns, two marzocchi (heraldic lions of St Mark) on the edges and three pine cones on the jambs, while four dripstones with small women’s heads protrude beneath the mezzanine windowsills.

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