Palazzo Contarini Pisani

The four-story building has a semicircular arched portal with access to the water, framed by two rectangular and two square window openings, and rustication in the corners. The first floor is separated from the upper ones by a massive cornice, which turns the floor into a kind of loggia.^[4] The triforas in the middle of the facade emphasize the central axis of the whole composition. All openings are framed with Istrian stone; corner stones on both sides of the facade are also made of this material up to the middle of the second floor. On the right side, the first floor ends with a lonely, strange in proportion, but typically Venetian column with a fancy capital.^[5]

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  A view from Grand Canal
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  Facade details
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  The right corner of the palazzo
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  Palazzo Boldù a San Felice and Palazzo Contarini Pisani
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  A view from the opposite side of Grand Canal