Palazzo Barozzi Emo Treves de Bonfili, Renaissance palace in San Marco, Italy

Palazzo Barozzi Emo Treves de Bonfili stands where the Grand Canal meets the Rio di San Moisè. Its Grand Canal front is split in two: the simpler left part survives from the original building, while the right part has two large serlian windows and a water portal. The wider Rio di San Moisè facade has fifteen windows per floor, some now blind, and a rooftop belvedere.

The Barozzi family built a crenellated palace here in the 12th century, with a loggia, an arcade and two broad square towers. In the 18th century renovations were begun but halted when the property passed to the Emo family. In 1827 the Treves bankers, barons de Bonfili, bought the complex and enriched the interiors without altering the unfinished facade or the plan; Jacopo Treves placed works by Pizzi, Borsato, Hayez and others, plus two Canova statues, Hektor and Aias.

The rooms display artworks created by painters such as Angelo Pizzi and Giuseppe Borsato for the space. Visitors can see two statues by Antonio Canova that have occupied the interior since the early 1800s.

The building sits directly on a canal and is best reached from the San Marco Vallaresso vaporetto stop. The nearest water stop is just under 400 meters away, making access from the waterway convenient.

The two square towers of the 12th-century Barozzi palace do not survive; the present building is the result of an 18th-century renovation left unfinished when the Emo family took over. The architect Bartolomeo Manopola made the Rio di San Moisè facade the main one, leaving the Grand Canal side asymmetrical.