Ca’ Rezzonico

The museum is situated in a palazzo originally built in 1649 by the noble Bon family, predominantly designed by the Venetian Baroque architect Baldassarre Longhena.

In the mid 17th century the Venetian architect Baldassarre Longhena received from the patrician Filippo Bon a commission for a magnificent building on the Grand Canal completed a century later by the Rezzonico family, which gives the palace its name. Later on, it changed many owners, including the English painter Robert Barrett Browning in the 19th century, and in 1920s the musician Cole Porter who lived there.

Since 1936, it has hosted the Museum of 18th Century in Venice. This charming environmental construction displays furniture, paintings and sculptures of one of the happiest seasons in European art with masterpieces by Canaletto, Guardi, Longhi, Tiepolo, and Rosalba Carriera, among others.