A report on Veneto and Andrea Palladio
Villa Barbaro (begun 1557) at Maser was an imposing suburban villa, built for the brothers Marcantonio and Daniele Barbaro, who were respectively occupied with politics and religious affairs in the Veneto, or Venice region.
- Andrea PalladioHe decorated large portions of the Palazzo Ducale and the decoration of many villas Palladian, including Villa Barbaro.
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Vicenza
4 linksCity in northeastern Italy.
City in northeastern Italy.
It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione River.
The 16th century was the time of Andrea Palladio, who left many outstanding examples of his art with palaces and villas in the city's territory, which before Palladio's passage, was arguably the most downtrodden and esthetically lacking city of the Veneto.
Villa Emo
2 linksVilla Emo is one of the many creations conceived by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
It is a patrician villa located in the Veneto region of northern Italy, near the village of Fanzolo di Vedelago, in the Province of Treviso.
Villa Badoer
2 linksVilla Badoer is a villa in Fratta Polesine in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
It was designed in 1556 by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio for the Venetian noble Francesco Badoer, and built between 1557 and 1563 on the site of a medieval castle, which guarded a bridge across a navigable canal.
Montagnana
2 linksMontagnana is a town and comune in the province of Padova, in Veneto (northern Italy).
Outside the city is the Villa Pisani, one of Andrea Palladio's masterpieces.
Bassano del Grappa
2 linksBassano del Grappa (Basan or Bassan, ) is a city and comune, in the Vicenza province, in the region of Veneto, in northern Italy.
The symbol of the town is the covered Ponte Vecchio, which was designed by the architect Andrea Palladio in 1569.
Palladian villas of the Veneto
1 linksThe Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in the Veneto, the mainland region of north-eastern Italy then under the political control of the Venetian Republic.
Padua
1 linksPadua (Padova ; Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.
Villa Contarini, at Piazzola sul Brenta, built in 1546 by Palladio and enlarged in the following centuries, is the most important.
Pojana Maggiore
2 linksPojana Maggiore is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, north-eastern Italy.
It is the site of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Villa Pojana, designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
Villa Pisani, Montagnana
1 linksThe Villa Pisani is a patrician villa outside the city walls of Montagnana, Veneto, northern Italy.
It was designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio about 1552, for Cardinal Francesco Pisani.
Villa Godi
1 linksVilla Godi is a patrician villa in Lugo di Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy.
It was one of the first projects by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, as attested in his monograph I quattro libri dell'architettura.