No 72

Palazzo Sanudo (Cannaregio 6099, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 18) also known as the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. Has the only original wooden door (15th Century) in Venice. It is on the Rio della Panada, not far from the Miracoli and the Campo e Maria Nove.

The house sometimes called by Ruskin ‘Miracoli one’ or ‘Sanudo ai Miracoli’, also known as Soranzo-Van Axel, at Cannaregio 6099, close to the Miracoli, is Ruskin’s House 72, called a noble Gothic Palace at Works, 11.431. See Notebook M2 pp.3L and 3 for a ‘beautiful cut cusp’; Notebook M2 p.34 where it is listed as Zanotto’s House 22; Notebook M2 p.46 where it is listed with the ‘house at the Arsenal’, and the ‘house at Campo della Bragola’; Notebook M2 p.67 for a comparison with the Palazzo Priuli at San Severo. See Notebook M p.123 - ‘Fast sketch of upper story and balcony of house No 72’; Notebook M p.138 and Gothic Book p.33 for the door; House Book 1.Back free endpaper recto; House Book 2 p.27; House Book 2 p.45L on its court, door, and windows; Door Book p.32.

Selvatico 118 discusses and illustrates staircases. He mentions the Palazzo Soranzo in Campo San Polo and the ‘Sanuto ora Vanaxel a S. Maria dei Miracoli’. However he concludes his discussion of staircases with the comment: “Le quali tutte però no mi paiono eguagliare in merito quella Bembo alla Celestia in Calle Magno.”

Entrance. Palazzo Sanudo; also known as the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. (Cannaregio 6099)

Door-Head and wooden portal. Palazzo Sanudo; also known as the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. (Cannaregio 6099)

Door handle, Palazzo Sanudo; also known as the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. (Cannaregio 6099)

Rio de Panda with Palazzo Sanudo; also known as the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. (Cannaregio 6099) on the left

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