Miniscalchi-Erizzo's Palace

Attributed to Angelo di Giovanni da Verona, the building dates back to the last quarter of the fifteenth century. The scheme proposes a very frequent model in the Veronese private architecture of this period, that is a monumental facade advanced on the street front that delimited the inner courtyard, around which the residential building was organized.
The facade, divided into three registers, is characterized on the ground floor by a majestic arched portal splayed, finely molded, consisting of three different types of local marble.
The main floor is particularly sumptuous for the presence of two imposing mullioned windows in Venetian style, embellished with refined central twisted columns, flower capitals and openings in trilobate openings.
The facade was frescoed around 1590 by Michelangelo Aliprandi, who followed the architectural structure: between the two mullioned windows you can still read the polychrome with the “Banquet of Damocles”, in the lateral intervals the festoons and, inside the framed left niches, the statue of Mars; while the group of Venus and Love on the right have been lost.
On the second floor there is the monochrome scene of the “Judgement of Solomon”; on the side, in fake marble mirrors, one reads the monochrome figure of Minerva, while that of Diana, painted symmetrically, has been lost.
Tullio India the Elder, on the other hand, was responsible for the decoration of the lower register of the façade which presents a continuous frieze, with polychrome branches, animated by putti riding on panthers.
The decoration is completed, at the top of the portal, by the coat of arms of the Family supported by two putti.