A report on Villa Emo, Villa Badoer and Veneto

The main block from the curved colonnade

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

Frescoes by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, west wall of the hall

The town of Fratta Polesine seen from the loggia of Villa Badoer

Structure of the roof of a curved barchessa

The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.

St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.

The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

Villa Badoer is a villa in Fratta Polesine in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

- Villa Badoer

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 Emo

These originally housed agricultural activities, for this was a working villa, like Villa Emo and most of the villas by Palladio.

- Villa Badoer

As in the case with the Villa Badoer, the loggia does not stand out from the core of the building as an entrance hall, but is retracted into it.

- Villa Emo

Palladian Villa architecture, in masterpieces such as Villa Emo, Villa Barbaro, Villa Capra, and Villa Foscari, evoked the imagined grandeur of antique classical Roman villas.

- Veneto

Villa Badoer, called "La Badoera" (Fratta Polesine RO)

- Veneto

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Portrait of Palladio by Alessandro Maganza

Andrea Palladio

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Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

One of the first works by Palladio, Villa Godi (begun 1537)

Hall of the Muses of the Villa Godi (1537–1542)

Palazzo Thiene (1542–1558), (begun by Giulio Romano, revised and completed by Palladio)

Ground floor and entrance stairway of the Basilica Palladiana

Upper level loggia of the Basilica Palladiana

The front page of I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) (1642 edition)

Villa Cornaro (begun 1553) combined rustic living and an imposing space for formal entertaining

Detail of the Hall of Olympus, with frescoes by Paolo Veronese

Palladio's plan of the Villa in I quattro libri dell'architettura, 1570

North facade of Villa Foscari, facing the Brenta Canal

Interior decoration of grotesques on salon ceiling of Villa Foscari

South facade of Villa Foscari, with the large windows that illuminate the main salon

Nave of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1565)

Interior of Il Redentore Church in Venice (1576)

Section of the Tempietto Barbaro, drawn by Scamozzi (1783)

Stage with scenery designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, who completed the theatre after the death of Palladio

Stage and seating of his last work, the Teatro Olimpico (1584)

House of the Director of the Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1775)

La Rotonde customs barrier, Parc Monceau, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Palladian garden structure at Steinhöfel by David Gilly (1798)

The Queen's House, Greenwich by Inigo Jones (1616–1635)

Chiswick House by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and William Kent (completed 1729)

Wilton House south front by Inigo Jones (1650)

Palladio Bridge at Wilton House (1736–37)

Stourhead House by Colen Campbell (1721–24), inspired by Villa Capra

Harvard Hall at Harvard University by Thomas Dawes (1766)

Monticello, residence of Thomas Jefferson (1772)

Winning design for the first United States Capitol by Thomas Thornton (1793)

Clarity and harmony. Villa Badoer (1556–1563), an early use by Palladio of the elements of a Roman temple

The Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, (begun 1546) with arched Palladian window and round oculi to the loggia.

A variation of the Palladian or Venetian window, with round oculi, at Villa Pojana (1548–49)

Late Palladio style, Mannerist decoration on the facade of the Palazzo del Capitanio (1565–1572)

Villa Capra "La Rotonda" outside Vicenza

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.

The Palladian villa configuration often consists of a centralized block raised on an elevated podium, accessed by grand steps, and flanked by lower service wings, as at Villa Foscari and Villa Badoer.

before 1556 (built 1559–1565): Villa Emo, for Leonardo Emo, Fanzolo di Vedelago, Province of Treviso