Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour of the Ca Rezzonico Palace in Venice, Italy.
Great Discoveries audio tour of Ca Rezzonico provides today's tourist with the most entertaining and informative way to visit this majestic but imposing 17th century marble palace. It is one of the few palaces in Venice permitting public insight into what lies behind the ornamental but often secretive facades of the many exquisite buildings lining the Grand Canal.
This huge sumptuous palace, which took its name and luster from the Rezzonico family, was actually built by the aristocratic scholar and Procurator Filippo Bon, the patriarch of the noble Bon family. In 1751 Giambattista Rezzonico, the head of an originally Lombard family, assumed the costs and prestige of the building. The Rezzonico family had recently been granted patrician status, status obtained by making enormous payments to the Republic. Having recently purchased their noble status, they wanted to be assured, and to assure everyone else, that they had arrived. The architect he engaged to complete the work was none other then Giorgio Massari, one of the most respected 18th century architects in Venice.
To have a palace on the Grand Canal was in itself prestigious, and to have a splendid and unusually large one constructed by Giorgio Massari and decorated by the likes of Giambattista Tiepolo, was certainly an added bonus. The completion of the palazzo symbolized the completion of the Rezzonico's upward social journey. The pinnacle of the Rezzonico's power and the palazzo's grandeur came in 1758 when Giambattista Rezzonico's son, Carlo, then Bishop of Padua, was elected Pope with the name of Clement XIII. Ca' Rezzonico was the center of very elaborate parties and celebrations, but in just fifty years, after the splendors of Carlo Rezzonico's papal election, this powerful family disappeared with the death of Abbondio in Pisa in 1810.
Today it is one of the finest museums in Venice, housing a wonderful collection of 18th century Venetian art. Largely because of its unique character, where objects designed for great palazzo's are displayed in a palace, the contents and the building harmonize in a way not possible in a purposely-built museum. Our carefully researched tour identifies and locates the most relevant works of art to ensure that you do not miss the important pieces and that you clearly understand each items artistic and historic significance. A professional narrator, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, delights, informs and amuses as she presents the Galleries history, its great works of art, and beguiling tales of the lives of the people, making your visit a most memorable experience.
Guides are recorded in easy to follow segments that are readily located your iPod. This 2 hour and 10 minute, 23 track, audio tour is designed to work with an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your iPod.
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Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour of the Ca Rezzonico Palace in Venice, Italy.
Great Discoveries audio tour of Ca Rezzonico provides today's tourist with the most entertaining and informative way to visit this majestic but imposing 17th century marble palace. It is one of the few palaces in Venice permitting public insight into what lies behind the ornamental but often secretive facades of the many exquisite buildings lining the Grand Canal.
This huge sumptuous palace, which took its name and luster from the Rezzonico family, was actually built by the aristocratic scholar and Procurator Filippo Bon, the patriarch of the noble Bon family. In 1751 Giambattista Rezzonico, the head of an originally Lombard family, assumed the costs and prestige of the building. The Rezzonico family had recently been granted patrician status, status obtained by making enormous payments to the Republic. Having recently purchased their noble status, they wanted to be assured, and to assure everyone else, that they had arrived. The architect he engaged to complete the work was none other then Giorgio Massari, one of the most respected 18th century architects in Venice.
To have a palace on the Grand Canal was in itself prestigious, and to have a splendid and unusually large one constructed by Giorgio Massari and decorated by the likes of Giambattista Tiepolo, was certainly an added bonus. The completion of the palazzo symbolized the completion of the Rezzonico's upward social journey. The pinnacle of the Rezzonico's power and the palazzo's grandeur came in 1758 when Giambattista Rezzonico's son, Carlo, then Bishop of Padua, was elected Pope with the name of Clement XIII. Ca' Rezzonico was the center of very elaborate parties and celebrations, but in just fifty years, after the splendors of Carlo Rezzonico's papal election, this powerful family disappeared with the death of Abbondio in Pisa in 1810.
Today it is one of the finest museums in Venice, housing a wonderful collection of 18th century Venetian art. Largely because of its unique character, where objects designed for great palazzo's are displayed in a palace, the contents and the building harmonize in a way not possible in a purposely-built museum. Our carefully researched tour identifies and locates the most relevant works of art to ensure that you do not miss the important pieces and that you clearly understand each items artistic and historic significance. A professional narrator, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, delights, informs and amuses as she presents the Galleries history, its great works of art, and beguiling tales of the lives of the people, making your visit a most memorable experience.
Guides are recorded in easy to follow segments that are readily located your iPod. This 2 hour and 10 minute, 23 track, audio tour is designed to work with an easy to read building diagram, with clearly numbered locations, which coordinate with the track numbers and descriptions displayed on your iPod.
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