Villa Porto, Molina di Malo
 | This article includes a improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2015) ) |
Villa Porto is an unfinished
patrician villa in Molina di Malo, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
in 1570.
History
The ten
plinths
of the splendid stone column bases, next to the date 1572.
The rich protagonist of one of Vicenza’s most important families, and brother-in-law of both Adriano and Marcantonio
Palazzo Porto
.
Archival documents show that the enormous columns are not the fragments of a monumental
pronaos of the Pantheon, would have reached an overall height of over thirteen metres. Lower porticoes
, on a quarter-circle plan and still visible in the 19th century, would have tied the manorial house to agricultural annexes to left and right.
This edifice recalls two other projects by Palladio, the
Villa Thiene at Cicogna, neither of which was ever executed though both are documented by various autograph sketches and were included in the I quattro libri dell'architettura. In publishing Giuseppe Porto’s city palace in the Quattro libri, Palladio enriched the original project with a courtyard of a giant Composite order
extremely close to that of the villa at Molina. Giuseppe’s death in 1580 put an end to the building works, which were never completed.
See also
- Palladian Villas of the Veneto
- Palladian architecture
- Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello
- Palazzo Porto, Vicenza
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Villa Porto (Molina di Malo).
- https://www.palladiomuseum.org/veneto/opera/60
- Villa Porto (Molina) in the CISA website (source for the first revision of this article, with kind permission)
