American writer Henry James compared the elegant building in the center, Palazzo Dario, to “a house of cards” and the French artist Claude Monet painted it. Palazzo Dario exemplifies another type of attraction, the residences of famous personas and the settings of important or curious events; even during Byron’s lifetime, the Venetian apartment he had occupied became a place of interest for the sightseer. The 15th-c. Palazzo Dario may owe its appeal for the artistic imagination to its distinctive semi-Italian, semi-Orientalizing façade, but its tourist popularity may also be rooted in its history of tragic deaths. One such event was the 1883 suicide of prominent English scholar Rawdon Lubbock Brown, who lived most of his life in Venice and had bought Palazzo Dario soon after he settled in the city in 1833 and spent his entire fortune on its renovations.Italy on Paper continues through July 29.Image: Baron Adolph de Meyer (French, 1868-1949)Views of Venice, early 20th centuryPlatinum print Gift of Paul F. Walter (OC 1957), 2008.36.137 
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American writer Henry James compared the elegant building in the center, Palazzo Dario, to “a house of cards” and the French artist Claude Monet painted it. Palazzo Dario exemplifies another type of attraction, the residences of famous personas and the settings of important or curious events; even during Byron’s lifetime, the Venetian apartment he had occupied became a place of interest for the sightseer. The 15th-c. Palazzo Dario may owe its appeal for the artistic imagination to its distinctive semi-Italian, semi-Orientalizing façade, but its tourist popularity may also be rooted in its history of tragic deaths. One such event was the 1883 suicide of prominent English scholar Rawdon Lubbock Brown, who lived most of his life in Venice and had bought Palazzo Dario soon after he settled in the city in 1833 and spent his entire fortune on its renovations.

Italy on Paper continues through July 29.

Image: 
Baron Adolph de Meyer (French, 1868-1949)
Views of Venice, early 20th century
Platinum print
 Gift of Paul F. Walter (OC 1957), 2008.36.137 

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