Palazzo Driuzzi: stucchi e affreschi

Abstract

This article publishes the eighteenth-century stucco and fresco decorations in palazzo Driuzzi, Venice. The stucco artists Abbondio Stazio and Carpoforo Mazzetti Tencalla designed the overdoors in the ‘portego’, Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo painted the four monochrome frescoes that were detached and moved to Germany at the end of the nineteenth century, and Girolamo Mengozzi Colonna painted foreshortened simulated architecture in the interiors. The decoration of palazzo Driuzzi is virtually unknown and published here for the first time in its entirety. The article identifies the original location of the monochrome paintings, still missing from the recent literature on Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo.