THE REZZONICO HOUSE (CA’ REZZONICO)
MUSEUM OF VENETIAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
The building of Rezzonico House started in 1649, when the noble family Bon ordered its construction following the project of Baldassarre Longhena, the most famous architect of Venetian baroque. But the construction was arrested because of financial difficulties of the family. In 1751 the Rezzonicos purchased the palace and the new project was commissioned to Giorgio Massari, an architect whit revolutionary ideas. Massari preserved only the façade and a part of the second floor of the Longhena’s project and completed the building in 1756. This architect projected the huge staircase of the entrance hall, the wide entrance hall and obtained a ballroom from second floor’s attic.
After a period of decadence, in the second half of Nineteenth Century the house was purchased by Britain poet Robert Browning, who died here in 1889. 
Starting from 1935 the structure was given out to Venice’s municipality by Lionello Hirschell de Minerbi, an Italian parliamentarian.
In the Rezzonico House, nowadays converted in the Museum of Venetian Eighteenth Century, you can admire painting and fresco paintings of Tiepolo, Canaletto, Rosalba Carriera, Longhi and many others, into an environment of precious furnishings of that age.