Venice 2021

THE DOGE'S PALACE. A masterpiece of Gothic art, the Doge's Palace in Veniceit is structured in a grandiose stratification of constructive and ornamental elements: from the ancient foundations to the fourteenth-fifteenth century structure of the whole, to the conspicuous Renaissance inserts, to the sumptuous mannerist signs. It is made up of three large buildings which have incorporated and unified previous constructions: the wing facing the San Marco Basin (which contains the Sala del Maggior Consiglio) and which is the oldest, rebuilt starting from 1340; the wing facing the Piazza (formerly the Palazzo di Giustizia) with the Sala dello Scrutinio, whose construction in its present form begins in 1424; on the opposite side, the Renaissance wing, with the Doge's residence and many government offices, rebuilt between 1483 and 1565.