Venice - Palazzo Querini-Stampalia

The attractive palace houses the Querini-Stampalia art gallery and library which were bequeathed to the city, together with the palace, in 1868.

Biblioteca Querini-Stampalia

The library is on the first floor and contains 1,100,000 Venetian volumes and 300 manuscripts.

Pinacoteca Querini-Stampalia

The collection of 14th-18th century Venetian paintings is on the second floor. The pictures are still arranged according to the wishes of the founder of the collection Count Giovanni Querini-Stampalia. There are works by Donato Venaziano (Room 2), Sebastiano Bombelli (Room 3), Palma the Younger (Room 4), Andrea Schiavone (Room 5), Pietro Liberi, Matteo dei Pitocchi (Rooms 6-7), Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo di Credit (Room 8), Palmer the Elder (Room 9), Pietro Longhi (Rooms 11-13), Alesandro Longhi, Giambattista Tiepolo (Room 18), and Bernard Strozzi (Room 19).

Apart from the paintings the Venetian 18th century furniture is of special interest.