CÀ D'ORO, Franchetti Gallery - Second Floor

The second floor of Ca' d'Oro loses part of the character of its private collection which is mainly linked to the 1400s, and offers you works that are different for their eras, materials, and authors. In short, it is a little less like a "home" and a bit more like a "museum", but what a museum!!

You'll immediately enter a princely waiting room dedicated to the 1500s, Venice's golden century of art. Between Flemish tapestries and beautiful portrait-busts, get ready to see some masterpieces of non-sacred subject painting: Titian's Venus in the Mirror (a copy he personally made of his highly popular painting), Paris Bordon's Venus in the Treviso landscape , a portrait by Tintoretto, and another from much later which was obviously inspired by Venetian painting, and is by Antwerp's master Anton Van Dyck.

Other important foreign works of art from the 15th to 17th century can be found in the next room: its most prized piece is a touching Crucifixion, the work of a Flemish master....