Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza

The Palazzo Leoni Montanari is a late Baroque palace located in Contra’ San Corona number 25 in central Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy.

It now houses exhibition rooms, meeting places, and art collections owned by the bank, Intesa Sanpaolo.

Construction was commissioned in 1678 by Giovanni Leoni Montanari, a wealthy merchant in fabrics who aspired to enter the nobility.

In 1808, the palace was bought by Count Girolamo Egidio di Velo, an amateur collector of Greek and Roman antiques.

The art galleries of the museum contain a select collection of Russian icons and paintings mainly by Venetian-trained artists of the 18th century, such as Francesco Albotto, Canaletto, Carlevarijs, the brothers Francesco and Giacomo Guardi, Pietro Longhi, Bartolomeo Pedon, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, the studio of Marco Ricci, Francesco Zuccarelli, and father and son: Giovanni Battista and Gian Domenico Tiepolo.