Today the seat of a cultural association, the Ateneo Veneto, this school was once the site of the "School of the Hanged" because its members used to accompany the condemned to their place of execution. On the ground floor in the amphitheatre a wooden coffered ceiling decorated by Palma the Young. In the reading room, paintings by Veronese.

The Camerlinghi were magistrates who were in charge of administering the national Treasury. A heavy responsibility that well deserved to have Guglielmo dei Grigi, called the Bergamasco, in charge of building it. Facing the Rialto, this Renaissance palace has great windows topped by festooned friezes.

A series of 60 paintings by Fuminiani cover the vault giving the impression that the nave and the sky are one. This masterpiece tells the life story of poor Pantaleone, a doctor from Nicomedia decapitated by the emperor Diocletian because he converted to Christianity. It's a rather sad story, and to top it off, Venetians call him Pantalone!

Charles V in Titian's studio, Henri III in Murano: these are some of the subjects of the mosaics that illuminate the facade of this palace. They were executed by the "Venice and Murano Company", a glass and mosaic company put in charge in the 19th C., of renovating this 16th C. palace. And you would think they had always been there!