Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro

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The Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro is an art museum located in the Ca' d'Oro on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.

Baron Giorgio Franchetti (1865–1922), was born to a prominent family in Turin. Initially trained in a military school, he preferred the study of music and collecting art. In 1890 he married Baroness Maria Hornstein Hohenstoffeln. By 1891 the couple had moved to Venice, and bought the then dilapidated Ca' d'Oro and set upon restoring the building, as far as possible, to its 15th-century layout.

Franchetti also traveled widely to purchase objects for the palace, including in Paris where he purchased the building's original well head (1427) by Bartolomeo Bon. He supervised much of the restoration, added the mosaic floor collections, designing the inner courtyard mosaic himself, and constructed a chapel to house his painting of St Sebastian by Mantegna. His grandson helped further his wish, stated in 1916, to make the house and collection a museum. The palace officially became a museum and was inaugurated on January 18 1927.

See also Category:Paintings in the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro The baron's collection form the nucleus of the displays, which are augmented by other works from local buildings. The baron's tomb is on the premises. Among the works on display are:

- Apollo del Belvedere by Jacopo Bonacolsi also called l'Antico

- Medal depicting Leonello d'Este by Pisanello

- Medal depicting Sultan Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini

- Medal depicting Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici by Bertoldo di Giovanni

- Madonna and Child (15th century) by Michele Giambono

- Madonna and Child (15th century) by the studio of Alvise Vivarini

- Madonna della Misericordia and Stories of St Bartholemew, polyptych by Simone da Cusighe

- Wooden ceiling from Palazzo Giustiniani alla Fava

- Bronze relief with animals by Bartolomeo Bellano

- Bronze statuette of Education about Love by Venus in the Foundry of Vulcan attributed to Bertoldo di Giovanni

- Bronze copy of lo Spinario attributed to Severo Calzetta

- Bronze statuette of Bacchus and Pomona by Pierino da Vinci

- Bronze statuette of Winged Mercury by the school of Giambologna

- Annunciation, Visitation, and Death of the Virgin (early 16th century) by Vittore Carpaccio

- Christ of Piety between to Angels (1529) by Marco Palmezzano

- Bronze statuette of Two Putti Musicians by Niccolò Roccatagliata