VENICE PALACE, MUSEUM OF THE

Italian Museo Di Palazzo Venezia, in Rome, museum occupying part of the papal apartment of the first great Renaissance palace of Rome. Dating from the middle of the 15th century, the Palazzo Venezia was built for Cardinal Pietro Barbo, later Pope Paul II. Displayed are fine medieval and Renaissance sculptures and a series of 15th-century carved and inlayed cassoni, or chests. Paintings include works attributed to Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Taddeo Zuccari, Benozzo Gozzoli, and other Renaissance masters. Sculptures by Andrea Sansovino, Alessandro Vittoria, Alessandro Algardi, Pompeo Leoni, and Giambologna as well as fine examples of 17th-century Chinese porcelain and tapestries and majolica are also in the collection; it includes many examples of minor decorative arts as well.