# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, Italian]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The Palazzo Lamba Doria was given to Lamba Doria \(or D'Oria, c. 1245-1323\), an admiral of the Republic of Genoa. He defeated the Venetians in the battle of Curzola in 1298, where he took prisoner the admiral Andrea Dandolo \(who subsequently committed suicide\) and, according to a tradition, Marco Polo. Andrea Doria was his descendant. In the palazzo, the ground floor loggia with its fine polygonal columns recalls the Bolognese arcades, although the outflow of the main stairs indicates its private nature. The four storeys of striped white marble and black stone façade are clearly defined by intervening cornices and are enlivened by the pointed 'quadrifore' \(mullioned windows with four lights\) which repeat the shapes and rhythm of the arcade beneath. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Apse of a basilica]() - [Arsenale Gateway]() - [Arsenale Gateway]() - [Basilica di Sant'Antonio: Chiostro del Noviziato]() - [Basilica Santi Nereo e Achilleo]() - [Ca' Foscari: Façade]() - [Chamber of the millers]() - [Chiesa dell'Incoronata: Interior of the dome]() - [Cloister gallery]() - [Detail of the façade]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()