Audience Room, Royal Palace, Venice, Italy

Audience Room, used by empress Sissi to receive guests in 1856-57 and 1861-62, with red and cream wall coverings 1854-56, 18th century gilded armchairs with velvet brocade and Murano glass chandelier 19th century, in the Sissi apartments, used by empress Elisabeth of Austria, in the Royal Palace of Venice, now the Correr Museum, on the Piazza San Marco in Venice, Veneto, Italy. The Napoleonic wing was built 1807-13 designed by Giovanni Antonio Antolini and Giuseppe Maria Soli and was used by Napoleon until 1814, the Emperor of Austria until 1866 and the king of Italy until 1919, and restored 2000-22. The historic centre of Venice is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1807-13 1814 1854-56 1866 2000-22 Antolini Apartments Armchair Armchairs Brocade Chandelier Civici Correr Coverings Fondazione Giuseppe Habsburg Hapsburg Murano Musei Parquet Piazza Reale Receive Sissi Soli Veneto Venezia

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