Palazzo Dario, also called Ca' Dario, stands on the Grand Canal in Venice's Dorsoduro district. The patrician Giovanni Dario, a secretary to the Venetian Senate, diplomat and merchant, was the client. The article gives no date for the original building and names no architect. A follower of Pietro Lombardo carried out the remodel, which took place after 1486.
The article describes the style as Venetian Gothic, later renovated in Renaissance style. The facade has marble-encrusted Gothic oculi that John Ruskin admired. In the late 19th century Countess de la Baume-Pluvinel added a staircase, external chimneys and majolica stoves.
Dario died in 1494, and the palace passed to his daughter Marietta. Claude Monet painted it in 1908. In 2025 it was empty and seeking a buyer.
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