Ca’ Pesaro is a Baroque marble palace on Venice’s Grand Canal, now home to the International Gallery of Modern Art and part of the city’s museum system. It was designed by Baldassarre Longhena in the mid-17th century and completed by Gian Antonio Gaspari in 1710.
Ca’ Pesaro is a Baroque marble palace on Venice’s Grand Canal, now home to the International Gallery of Modern Art and part of the city’s museum system. It was designed by Baldassarre Longhena in the mid-17th century and completed by Gian Antonio Gaspari in 1710.
Ca’ Pesaro is important both as an example of Venetian Baroque architecture and as one of Venice’s major modern art venues. The palace also played a role in early Venice Biennale-era exhibition culture and later hosted the Bevilacqua La Masa exhibitions for younger artists.
 
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Many visitors come for the modern art and never realize there is also the Museum of Oriental Art above it. That pairing is one of the building’s quirks: 19th- and 20th-century European art below, Asian art above.