page_title: Ca' Foscari
section_title: Entrance hall
hierarchical_section_title: Ca' Foscari / Uses of the building / Entrance hall
caption_attribution_description: English: Ca' Foscari: 19th century lantern
context_page_description: Ca' Foscari, the palace of the Foscari family, is a Gothic building on the waterfront of the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.
  It was built for the doge Francesco Foscari in 1453, and designed by the architect Bartolomeo Bon. It is now the main seat of Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
  The palace is located on the widest bend of the Grand Canal. Here, during the annual Regata Storica, held on the first Sunday in September, a floating wooden structure known as La Machina is placed; this is also the site of the finishing line, and the venue for prize-giving.
context_section_description: The entrance hall was restored in 1936 by the great Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. On that occasion Scarpa designed:
  the glass wall entrance, which reminds the window of the great hall on the second floor
  the benches (with the typical T-shape pattern present in other works by Carlo Scarpa)
  the handrail of the nineteenth-century stairway
  the lamps
caption: 19th-century lantern in the palace
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