the land-side of palazzo dario rises on a small square shaded by trees, the "campiello barbaro", named in honor of the patrician barbaro family who lived there. the english art critic john ruskin was particularly entranced with and wrote about the palace's gothic marble-encrusted oculi. the corner treatments of the palace resemble those found in the palazzo priuli a san severo. the rear facade of the palace on the campiello barbaro has gothic arches of the fifth order.