Palazzo Contarini delle Figure, Renaissance palace at Grand Canal, Venice, Italy

Palazzo Contarini delle Figure is a Renaissance palace on the Canal Grande known for its symmetrical facade arranged in nine sections with five main windows per level. A large water-gate entrance at the base provides direct access to the interior, while the building is constructed in a warm reddish stone.

Jacopo Contarini, procurator of San Marco, commissioned the palace to replace an earlier Gothic Contarini house sold around 1448 and reacquired in the early 16th century. The rebuilding site stayed open from 1504 to 1546. Andrea Palladio lodged there before Contarini moved in with his family in 1577. In 1713 Bertucci Contarini, last heir, gave the family art collection to the Doge's Palace.

The name "delle Figure" comes from two caryatids carved as monsters beneath the main balcony, not female figures. Popular belief identifies them as a man ruined at gambling and his furious wife, a tale no scientific source supports.

The building sits between two neighboring palaces and is clearly visible from the water side of the Canal Grande. Since it is now divided into residential apartments, visitors can only view the facade and outer entrance from the boats.

The central quadrifora is framed by five fluted Corinthian columns carrying a triangular pediment, an odd number where porticoes usually have an even one. The pediment is the element that most suggests a Palladian hand completing an already sketched facade. The capitals are thought to have once been gilded.