The Ca’ d’oro was built in the first half of the ’400 by Marino Contarini, and’ a symbol of Venice, with the architecture typical of the late-gothic of the lodges open on the Grand Canal.
The baron Giorgio Franchetti, who had bought and restored at the end of the ‘ 800, to donate to the State in 1915, the Palace and its art collections. Among the works: troaviamo paintings of Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, “St. Sebastian” by Mantegna and even paintings by Titian, Giorgione, Tintoretto, Guardi, van Eyck and other artists of the flemish and German ceramics, venetian centuries, the marble of the Renaissance, a collection of bronzes, rare medals, frescoes, statues, and fragments of the greeks and romans. Remarkable real well of B. Bon, with the allegories of virtues.