Palazzo Donghi Ponti

Formerly the Headquarters of Cassa di Risparmio del Veneto

Designed by Daniele Donghi in 1913, and built on the city street destined to house the headquarters of Padua’s major economic institutions, the Palazzo was extended by Gio Ponti in 1961-64.

Both the architecture, triumphant in its use of the giant order on the main facade and more understated towards Piazza Eremitani, and the decorative cycles of the interiors, joyous Art Nouveau-style images by Giovanni Vianello, convey messages praising the virtues of work and thrift through art.

Info

Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 22-26, Padua, PD, Italia

Publications

Palazzo Donghi - Sede della Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo Claudio Rebeschini (editor), Milan 2002
L'edificio della Cassa di Risparmio di Padova in Daniele Donghi. I molti aspetti di un ingegnere totale Claudio Rebeschini, edited by Giuliana Mazzi e Guido Zucconi, Venice 2006
Palazzo Donghi Ponti. Padova. Claudio Rebeschini, Marco Biraghi. Crocetta del Montello, Antiga Edizioni 2018

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