THE PESARO HOUSE (CA’ PESARO)
INTERNATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART
The building of Pesaro House dates of Sixteenth Century, when the noble and very rich Pesaro family ordered its construction following a project of Baldassare Longhena, a famous architect of Venetian baroque. This architect realized solutions and languages having the ability of express a new harmony to the classical baroque. The façade in front of Grand Canal is the best example of this new synthesis, having a composition complicated and balanced at the same time.
Nowadays the Pesaro House hosts the International Gallery of Modern Art, where you can see a large number of masterpieces and collections of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. 
There are paintings by Chagall, Klimt, Kandinsky, Klee, Moore and Matisse and many others modern artists. You can see also sculptures.