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Jacopo Sansovino began the Libreria Marciana in 1537, and Palladio later called it the richest and most ornate building since antiquity — high praise in a city that had never been shy about ornament. The middle story is the building's argument: paired Ionic columns carry a sculptural frieze dense with putti and garlands, above which a balustraded loggia opens into deep shadow, each arch framing a void so dark it reads as solid as the stone around it. The whole surface is Istrian limestone, the same lagoon-quarried stone used across Venice, here deployed with a Roman restraint that sits in deliberate counterpoint to the Gothic excess of the Doge's Palace directly opposite. Sansovino was making a point about civilization; five centuries later, the point still lands.
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