Discover Palazzo Dolfin Manin

The ground floor arcade -- six arches carried on seven pilasters -- runs the length of the Grand Canal facade, echoed above by a row of windows on the piano nobile framed by Ionic half-columns, and a second row on the upper floor framed by Corinthian half-columns, with a wide multi-light window at the center of each level. A deep, dentil-molded roof overhang finishes the composition at the top.

Inside, the palace once held paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo, created between about 1725 and 1740, possibly connected to the 1748 marriage that joined the Manin family to the Grimani. Some ceiling paintings and stuccowork survive in rooms from the Selva-era renovation, the work of decorators including Jacopo Guarana, Costantino Cedini, and Giuseppe Bernardino Bison.