Museo di Palazzo Venezia

The palace was built in 1455, when the Venetian Cardinal Pietro Barbo was named titular of the Basilica of Saint Mark. Nine years later he became Pope Paul II (1464-71) and so he enlarged the palace structure while his cardinal-nephew, Marco Barbo, was assigned to the basilica. During this period three monumental halls were created: the Regia Room, the Concistory Room (lat...