Ca’ Dario

In the variegated and quite complex scene of 15th-century Venetian civil architecture, Ca' Dario is an apparent eccentricity. Within that restless dimension and - in lexical, grammatical, syntactic order - made up of an obstinate persistence of daring Gothic embellishments, tenacious tendencies toward Tuscan geometry and perspective, wearisome intersections between Byzantine nostalgia and dreams of a classical “restitutio”, the unusual building is atypical, irreducible to the context, though quite spacious. The book reveals how the building, in its fascinating eclecticism, conceals a guiding thread of coherence, while recomposing its events and analysing its history.