Villa Pisani, Bagnolo

Coordinates: 45°21′26″N 11°22′17″E / 45.357140°N 11.371381°E / 45.357140; 11.371381
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Villa Pisani Bagnolo (built 1540s)
UNESCO World Heritage Site
LocationLonigo, Province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Part ofCity of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
Reference712bis-007
Inscription1994 (18th Session)
Extensions1996
Coordinates45°21′26″N 11°22′17″E / 45.357140°N 11.371381°E / 45.357140; 11.371381
Villa Pisani, Bagnolo is located in Veneto
Villa Pisani, Bagnolo
Location of Villa Pisani, Bagnolo in Veneto
Villa Pisani, Bagnolo is located in Italy
Villa Pisani, Bagnolo
Villa Pisani, Bagnolo (Italy)

The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, located in Bagnolo, a hamlet in the comune of Lonigo in the Veneto region of Italy.

History

The Pisani were a rich family of Venetian nobles who owned several Villa Pisani, two of them designed by Andrea Palladio. The villa at Bagnolo was built in the 1540s and represents Palladio's first villa designed for a patrician family of Venice:

Villa Pisani at Montagnana
in a semi-urban setting usees more refined motifs.

In 1570, Palladio published a version of the villa in his I quattro libri dell'architettura.[3] The executed villa differs noticeably from the design. The deviations may have been in response to certain conditions on the actual site.

An

Vasari, but it was demolished in the nineteenth century and replaced by a structure that bears no relation to the Palladian façade it faces.[4]

The interior features a central T-shaped salone with

Roman baths; it is decorated with frescoes
.

In 1996, UNESCO included the villa in the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".

Gallery

  • The Villa as seen from the embankment of the Guà river
    The Villa as seen from the embankment of the Guà river
  • Rear façade
    Rear façade
  • GreatHall
    GreatHall
  • Villa Pisani in I quattro libri dell'architettura (book II), 1570
    Villa Pisani in I quattro libri dell'architettura (book II), 1570
  • Section by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1778
    Section by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1778

See also

References

  1. ^ The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc., Palladio's Life and World.
  2. ^ John Summerson, Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 (Pelican History of art), 19(1953) 1963:222, notes Palladio's use of case di villa for these houses and traces the evolution of villa in English to refer to the main houses themselves, eventually in isolation from a supporting estate.
  3. ^ first published in Italian as I quattro libri dell'architettura, Venezia (Venice) 1570, Palladio's work is available in English translation: the Villa Pisani (Bagnolo) is shown in book two, page 47.
  4. ^ "International Centre for the Study of the Architecture of Andrea Palladio: Villa Pisani, Bagnolo di Lonigo". Archived from the original on 2007-10-23. Retrieved 2008-05-16.

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