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The city of Vicenza and the Palladian villas of the Veneto
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- Villa Valmarana Scagliolari Zen
- Villa Almerico Capra - La Rotonda
- Villa Piovene
- Arcades of Villa Trissino
- Villa Pisani
- Villa Angarano
- Villa Godi
- Villa Gazzotti
- Villa Thiene
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- Villa Chiericati
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- Villa Saraceno
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Palladio's buildings
Villa Valmarana
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In the early 1540’s, Palladio designed a small villa for the cousins Giuseppe and Antonio Valmarana who had inherited land in Vigardolo, a few kilometres north of Vicenza. The need to house two families within the same building may explain the layout of the rooms that are organised into two independent, symmetrical apartments. These were accessed from the rear living area rather than from the loggia at the front of the house that the cousins shared.
This building was part of a transitional project in Palladio’s professional life, but one in which we find his characteristic traits in terms of architectural language completely at one for the first time. We see elements that belong to local Vicentine building tradition in this villa, like the layout of the rooms that resembles the Villa Trissino at Cricoli. One of these elements was the laying out of side rooms in terms of the exact proportional ratio to one another.
Address
Via Ponte, 3 Lisiera di Bolzano Vicentino Vicenza
Visit
tel. 0444 356920
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The city of Vicenza and the Palladian villas of the Veneto
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Villa Valmarana
In the early 1540’s, Palladio designed a small villa for the cousins Giuseppe and Antonio Valmarana who had inherited land in Vigardolo, a few kilometres north of Vicenza. The need to house two families within the same building may explain the layout of the rooms that are organised into two independent, symmetrical apartments. These were accessed from the rear living area rather than from the loggia at the front of the house that the cousins shared.
This building was part of a transitional project in Palladio’s professional life, but one in which we find his characteristic traits in terms of architectural language completely at one for the first time. We see elements that belong to local Vicentine building tradition in this villa, like the layout of the rooms that resembles the Villa Trissino at Cricoli. One of these elements was the laying out of side rooms in terms of the exact proportional ratio to one another.
Address
Via Ponte, 3 Lisiera di Bolzano Vicentino Vicenza
Visit
tel. 0444 356920