Villa Pisani, Montagnana
| Part of | City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto |
|---|---|
| Criteria | Cultural: (i), (ii) |
| Reference | 712bis-022 |
| Inscription | 1994 (18th Session) |
| Extensions | 1996 |
| Coordinates | 45°13′49.81″N 11°28′10.34″E / 45.2305028°N 11.4695389°E |
  Location of Villa Pisani, Montagnana in Veneto  Villa Pisani, Montagnana (Italy) | |
The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa outside the city walls of Montagnana,[1] Veneto, northern Italy.
Architecture
It was designed by Italian Renaissance architect
Unlike many of Palladio's villas in purely rural settings, it has an upper storey, set apart from more public reception rooms on the main floor; twin suites of apartments are accessed by twin oval staircases that flank the central recess on the garden side. On the exterior, little differentiation between floors is made: there is no obviously visible
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Construction of the villa was under way by September 1553, and it was complete in 1555. The central block is an uncompromising rectangle, with a pedimented tetrastyle portico, Ionic over Doric, that has been sunk into its wall-plane so that the columns are embedded half-columns. On the garden front, the similar structure instead forms a screen across the fronts of a recessed portico surmounted by a loggia, which become in single recessed central feature. The Doric frieze[2] runs uninterrupted round the building, further binding all elements together. There are no surviving autograph drawings related to this project. However, Palladio published a version of the building in his I quattro libri dell'architettura. The woodcut shows an idealized, amplified form of the villa, in which the central block is flanked by arched gateway structures that end in tall, three-storey tower-like pavilions.[3]
Conservation
In 1996, UNESCO included the Villa Pisani in the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". The villa continues to be in private ownership.
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Influence on other buildings
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See also
- Palladian Villas of the Veneto
- Palladian architecture
References
- ^ The most prominent "Villa Pisani", among numerous villas that belonged to this Venetian family, is the baroque villa at Stra.
- metopes between the triglyphs.
- ^ I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura[permanent dead link], Venice, 1570 — facsimile of the book at octavo.com ] (in Italian)
External links
- Centro Internazionale di Studi Achitettura Andrea Palladio: Villa Pisani di Montagnana (in English and Italian)
