Civic Architecture : Villa
Villa Barbaro
The Villa Barbaro, dating from the early 1550s, features what many believe to be the most important fresco cycle of the 15th century — a beautiful and vivid series by Paolo Veronese. There, “[f]or the first time (even though the solution has precedents in fifteenth-century villas), the manor house and the barchesse were aligned in a compact unified architectural whole.” A bit more on the house maybe as this one is really important…
(Beltramini, pp. 158, 160)
Additional Reading
Additional Villas
- Villa Almerico Capra (La Rotonda)
- Villa Badoer
- Villa Barbaro
- Villa Caldogno
- Villa Chiericati
- Villa Cornaro
- Villa Emo
- Villa Foscari (La Malcontenta)
- Villa Gazzotti
- Villa Godi
- Villa Pisani at Bagnol
- Villa Pisani at Montagnana
- Villa Poiana (Istituto Regionale Ville Venete)
- Villa Saraceno
- Villa Sarego
- Villa Thiene (Municipio)
- Villa Trissino
- Villa Valmarana
