[2][3] In 1745, the palace and remaining painting collection was sold to the elector of Saxony for 100,000 zecchini.
[4] In the 1700s, the piano nobile was decorated by Giandomenico Tiepolo with frescoes of The charlatan and The Minuette .
[6][7] The palace changed hands during 19th century from Valentino Comello in 1837, whose wife Maddalena Montalban was jailed by the Austrians for a year; to Bartholomäus von Stürmer, Austrian general and diplomat; in 1864 to rich bankers and counts of Greek origin Niccolò [it] and Angelo Papadopoli.
The later bought a lot of adjacent buildings to create the large garden with a wing behind it.
Between 1874-1875, it housed Girolamo Levi, who along with Michelangelo Guggenheim and Cesare Rotta completed a Neoclassical refurbishment with gardens.