Everything about Procuratie Nuove totally explained
The
Procuratie (literally, "
procuracies") are three connected buildings on
St Mark's Square in
Venice. They are also connected to
St Mark's Clocktower. They are historic buildings over
arcades, the last of them completed, to finish off the square, under
Napoleon's occupation.
The oldest of the buildings is the
Procuratie Vecchie on the north side of the Square, built as a two-storey structure in the
twelfth century, to house the
offices and
apartments of the
procurators. They were rebuilt after a fire in the
sixteenth century to a three-storey design by
Codussi which still betrays something of its
Gothic roots.
The
Procuratie Nuove, on the south side of the Square was begun in
1586 by
Vincenzo Scamozzi in a more strictly
Classical style and completed by
Longhena in
1640, designed to afford more space to offices connected with the procurators.
The two buildings originally had wings on the west side of the Square, separated only by a small church. In about
1810, the wings and the church were demolished and replaced by the third building, the
Napoleonic Wing of the Procuraties. It was designed by
Giuseppe Maria Soli in a
Neoclassical manner.
In the
neoclassical interiors so out of character in Venice, were housed the Napoleonic governor after the fall of the Republic, then the Austrian governor, then they were reserved for the use of the
kings of Italy and now the
President of the Italian Republic receives in them if he's in Venice. The Procuratie Vecchie and the Procuratie Nuove house old, famous and expensive
coffee houses, cheek-by-jowl:
Gran Caffè Quadri,
Caffè Florian, which opened its doors December 29,
1720, and
Caffè Lavena, in the same premises since the mid-18th century; it was
Richard Wagner's favorite. Above, many a Venetian family whose
Ca might be a long gondola ride from the Piazza, kept a small apartment for entertaining called a
ridotto, the scenes of paintings of fashionable life by
Alessandro Longhi. The ridotti were extremely fashionable in Venice. As much care and taste went into the furnishings and stuccoed and painted decor of the
ridotti as were expended on the
palazzi of Venice themselves.
Today, the Napoleonic Wing and part of the Procuratie Nuove house the
Correr Museum.
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