Palazzo Coccina on the Grand Canal

This etching is from the book Fabriche e vedute di Venetia, 2nd ed., Plate 80. Published in 1703 and containing a series of pictures of famous Venetian buildings, this book is considered an important contribution to the development of Venetian art of veduta in the 18th century. Among buildings considered worthy of inclusion by Carlevaris was the Palazzo Coccina, which until 1645 contained four paintings by Veronese (now in Dresden). Built around 1560 by Giovanni Giacomo de’Grigi for Giovanni and Girolamo Coccina, the family palazzo was adjudged by Francesco Sansovino in 1581 to be one of the most splendid on the Grand Canal.