Pisani

On the Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal at San Polo 2766, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 28, see Works, 8.132; Works, 11.398 where it is described as the latest Venetian Gothic just passing into renaissance. The Palazzo Pisani on the Grand Canal at San Polo 2766 is described as next to the Palazzo Barbarigo at Works, 11.363, and at Works, 11.398 as containing Veronese’s Family of Darius, now in the National Gallery, London, and a work ‘of no value’, Tiepolo’s Death of Darius.

At least in these references in Works Ruskin had in mind the Pisani Moretta at San Polo 2766. That is also, from the description, the house to which he refers at Notebook M p.69 and Notebook M p.74. There is a note with suggested dates at Notebook M p.74A. The Pisani mentioned at Notebook M2 p.4 cannot be the Gritti, which is referred to as being next to the Contarini Fasan, and so that Pisani too is presumably the Palazzo Pisani Moretta.

The Palazzo Pisani mentioned at Door Book p.41 is at Cannaregio 6104, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 30, on the Rio di Santa Marina and the Calle delle Erbe. There is a spiral in a window jamb and that is perhaps what Ruskin means by ‘Pisani spiral’ at Notebook M p.208.

The reference to notes from Zanotto (1847) at Notebook M2 p.35 is to the Palazzo Pisani Gritti also on the Grand Canal but at San Marco 2467, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 51. At Notebook M2 p.4 Ruskin refers to the Pisani Gritti not by name but as the house next to the Palazzo Contarini Fasan.

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