Villa valmarana andrea palladio biography
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Villa Valmarana (Lisiera)
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Veneto, Italy
The Villa Valmarana (also known as Valmarana Scagnolari Zen) is a Renaissance hus situated in Lisiera, a locality of Bolzano Vicentino, province of Vicenza, nordlig Italy. Designed by Andrea Palladio, it was originally built in the s for the Valmarana family.[1]
The villa was nearly totally destroyed during World War II, but has been rebuilt. Even before the war damage, the building did not closely resemble the program which Palladio published in his I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) of , possibly because Gianfrancesco Valmarana, the architect's client, died while his house was being built.
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Villa Valmarana (Vigardolo)
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Villa Valmarana (also known as Valmarana Bressan) is a patrician villa at Vigardolo, Monticello Conte Otto, in the province of Vicenza, in northern Italy. The building is attributed to Andrea Palladio on the basis of an extant drawing of the villa that is undoubtedly by the architect.
The villa was constructed during the s, and is one of Palladio's earlier works.[1] It was commissioned by two cousins of the Valmarana family. The layout of the rooms suggests that Palladio's mandate was to provide accommodation for two nuclear families. The design also shows the influence of buildings from antiquity, which Palladio had seen on his first visit to Rome in The villa is decorated with frescoes, some of which date from the 16th century; they are more or less contemporaneous with the original occupation of the building.
In , UNESCO included the building in the World Heritage Site nam
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Discover Villa Valmarana ai Nani
An oasis of art and history at the top of the hill of San Bastiano
The Villa consists of three buildings – the Palazzina, the Foresteria, and the Scuderia – surrounded by rose gardens, an Italian garden with two fragrant Olea Fragrans, two hornbeam groves framing the picturesque nymphaeum in the rear park.
Walking down from the Stables we encounter the vegetable garden followed by the Forests: its paths take you to the extraordinary Pagoda (end of the 18th century) and to the little church that once belonged to the Rotonda, all the way to the magnificent Villa by Palladio.
In , Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo, at the request of Giustino Valmarana, frescoed the Palazzina and the Foresteria, making the Villa a true masterpiece of 18th-century Italian art.
Where does the term &#;ai Nani&#; come from?
The term refers to the 17 stone dwarfs, placed on the perimeter wall, which seem to guard th