Ca' Pesaro Site Features

Longhena's facade is one of the most sculptural on the Grand Canal: a heavily rusticated ground floor, its stonework carved into deep, diamond-faceted blocks, supports two upper stories of paired colossal columns framing arched windows -- a double loggia effect that reads almost like a stack of triumphal arches rather than a conventional palace front.

The undisputed highlight of the modern art collection is Gustav Klimt's Judith II (1909), acquired not long after it was painted and now one of the most recognizable single artworks on public display in Venice. The Museum of Oriental Art's Edo-period Japanese armor and Hokusai prints offer a completely different register of craftsmanship under the same Baroque roof.