Palazzo Corner della Ca' Grande in Venice was designed by Jacopo Sansovino for the Corner family. A fire in 1532 destroyed their previous residence, which Giorgio Cornaro had bought from the Malombra family, and the new design followed. It was one of Sansovino's first Venetian commissions. The text gives no construction dates, materials or dimensions. The style is Renaissance.
The facade has two horizontal orders, a rusticated lower part and upper floors with large arcades. A central portico at Grand Canal level has three arcades flanked by two pairs of square windows. The palace stands across the canal from Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, near St. Mark's Square.
Another fire struck in 1817, and Andrea Corner sold the palace to the Austrian Empire. After the Veneto joined Italy in 1866, it became the seat of the Province of Venice and its prefect, and it still serves that role. The article gives no hours or public access.
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