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Palazzo Pojana
now Arrigoni Noventa
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Corso Palladio, 90/94
Vincenzo Pojana owned a house at the corner of Contrà Do Rode and Corso Palladio and, when he bought the building opposite in 33, he asked permission to join the two structures with an arch that would span Contrà Do Rode.
This was built between 33 and 1566 and linked the two buildings with an interesting construction passing over the road beneath. The facade of the new building is not symmetrical on the ground floor (this is still visible, despite the gutting of the building to make room for shops): indeed the two right hand arches should have acted as the entrance.
The main features of the piano nobile are the six, enormous, Corinthian pilasters, the five tabernacle windows and a further five, square, upper windows. Attribution to Palladio is derived from the existence of a design by the Master concerning this building which is preserved in Great Britain.
The 16th-century section of the palace which Bonifacio Pojana started building can be seen in Contrà San Tommaso. According to Bortolan and Rumor (1919), he followed plans drawn by Andrea Palladio, but which were more probably by Domenico Groppino. According to historical reconstruction, the work was interrupted on the death of the nobleman in 1576. At the end of the following century, Francesco Muttoni designed a new building commissioned by Count Alessandro Pojana. |
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