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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/07/2026 20:30:00

A seventeenth-century palazzo at the confluence of the Cannaregio Canal and the Grand Canal, renowned for its ballroom frescoed by Giambattista Tiepolo between 1746 and 1747 with scenes from the life of Cleopatra. The frescoes -- The Banquet of Cleopatra and The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra -- are considered among Tiepolo's finest secular works, combining architectural trompe-l'oeil, luminous colour, and theatrical narrative in a unified decorative scheme that dissolves the room's walls into ...