Editing Ca' d'Oro (section)

{{Short description|Palace and art gallery in Venice, Italy}}
{{For|the museum|Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro}}
{{Infobox building
| name             = Ca' d'Oro
| alternate_names  = Galleria Giorgio Franchetti
| image            = File:Ca' d'Oro facciata.jpg
| caption          = Ca' d'Oro façade overlooking the Grand Canal
| location         = [[Venice]], [[Veneto]]
| address          = [[Cannaregio]] 3932 (Calle Ca 'd'Oro)
| location_country = [[Italy]]
| start_date       = 1421
| completion_date  = 1437
| architect        = Giovanni Bon, Bartolomeo Bon, Matteo Raverti
| owner            = Original patron:  Marino Contarini
| building_type    = Originally a palace; now a museum
| architectural_style = Byzantine, Gothic, Islamic
| coordinates      = {{Coord|45|26|26|N|12|20|02|E}}
| mapframe         = yes
| mapframe-caption = Click on the map for a fullscreen view
| website          = https://www.cadoro.org/the-museum/?lang=en
| mapframe-zoom    = 13
| mapframe-marker  = museum
| mapframe-frame-width = 300
}}
The '''Ca' d'Oro,''' or '''Palazzo Santa Sofia,''' is a palace on the [[Grand Canal of Venice|Grand Canal]] in [[Venice]], northern [[Italy]]. Ca' d'Oro or Cadoro translates to "House of Gold" or "Golden House" in English because of the [[Gilding|gilt]] and [[polychrome]] external decorations that once adorned its walls.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Fogolari |first=Gino |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6RdHAQAAIAAJ&dq=ca%27+d%27oro&pg=PA8 |title=The Ca' D'Oro |date=1927 |publisher=Review "le tre Venezie" |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation |title=Ca' d'Oro |date=2003 |work=Oxford Art Online |url=https://login.sandiego.idm.oclc.org/login?qurl=https://doi.org%2f10.1093%2foao%2f9781884446054.013.90000369996 |access-date=2024-10-03 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/oao/9781884446054.013.90000369996 |isbn=978-1-884446-05-4|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It was designed by Marino Contarini and later restored by Baron Giorgio Franchetti.<ref name=":1" /> In 1927, the building was converted into a museum and since then has been known as the [[Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro]].

The Ca' d'Oro has long been regarded as the best-surviving palazzo in [[Venetian Gothic architecture]], retaining all the most characteristic features, despite some losses. On the facade, the [[loggia]]-like window group of closely spaced small columns, with heavy [[tracery]] and [[quatrefoil]] openings above, use the formula from the [[Doge's Palace]] that had become iconic.  There is also Byzantine-inspired decoration along the roofline and patterning in fancy colored stone to the flat wall surfaces.  The smaller windows show a variety of forms with an [[ogee]] arch capped with a relief ornament.

The third act of [[Amilcare Ponchielli]]'s opera, ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]],'' is set in the palace.

During the [[2019 Venice flood]], water levels reached the top of the wellhead in the inner courtyard.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-04 |title=The cost of Venice's worst floods since 1966 |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/02/04/the-cost-of-venices-worst-floods-since-1966 |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events}}</ref>

[[Francis H. Kimball]], the famed American architect behind landmarks like the Empire State Building, used the Ca' d'Oro as inspiration for the [[Montauk Club]], a social club in Brooklyn, New York.