Palazzo Salviati, Palace on Grand Canal in Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy.
Palazzo Salviati is a building on the Grand Canal in Dorsoduro, between Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff and Palazzo Orio Semitecolo Benzon. Its ground floor is dominated by three large arches; the second floor has round-arched windows and the upper floor a central mullioned window. A very large mosaic fills the centre of the facade, with smaller mosaics over the ground-floor doors and at the top of the third floor.
Built between 1903 and 1906 as the shop and furnace of the Salviati glassworks, to a design by Giacomo Dell'Olivo. The Salviati company itself was founded in 1859 by Antonio Salviati. A major renovation in 1924 raised the building by one floor and added the large mosaic on the facade.
The Salviati family's long involvement in Venice's glass trade is reflected in the building's mosaic decoration on the main facade. The palace demonstrates how wealthy merchant families expressed their business success and social status through the architecture and artistic details of their homes.
The palace sits directly on the Grand Canal and is accessible by water, which is the typical way to view Venice's palaces. The best views of the facade are from the water or from boats passing along the canal.
The central mosaic and the smaller ones above the ground-floor arches were made for the Salviati glassworks, whose furnaces and shop stood in this building from 1903 to 1906. The company itself was founded in 1859 by Antonio Salviati, so the facade advertises a firm already four decades old when the mosaics went up in 1924.
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