Palazzo Cini
House-museum gallery of Renaissance Tuscan paintings, ivories and enamels in a Grand Canal palace.
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This guide to Palazzo Cini in Venice traces Giorgio Cini, heir to a great industrial fortune, who once bribed his way through Nazi officials to pull his own father out of Dachau, and his fiancee, actress Merle Oberon, waiting on the ground as his small plane took off near Cannes in 1949. It follows his father Vittorio, who had spent decades quietly filling this Grand Canal palace with Tuscan paintings chosen alongside art historian Bernard Berenson. Look for the small, glowing panels by Botticelli and Fra Angelico that Vittorio assembled here.
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