Villa Trissino (Cricoli)
UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Location | Vicenza, Province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy |
Part of | City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto |
Criteria | Cultural: (i)(ii) |
Reference | 712bis-001 |
Inscription | 1994 (18th Session) |
Extensions | 1996 |
Coordinates | 45°33′55″N 11°32′49″E / 45.56528°N 11.54694°E |
The Villa Trissino is a
Since 1994 the villa has been part of a World Heritage Site, designated to protect the Palladian buildings of Vicenza. In 1996 UNESCO extended the site "Vicenza, City of Palladio" to cover the Palladian Villas outside the core area and renamed it as "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".
This villa is not to be confused with the similarly named Villa Trissino some 20 km away at Sarego, an incomplete building that Palladio designed for Ludovico and Francesco Trissino, as documented in I quattro libri dell'architettura ("The Four Books of Architecture").
History
It is uncertain whether this villa was designed by Palladio, but it is one of the centres if not, in fact, the origin of his myth.
Giangiorgio Trissino was a man of letters, the author of plays for the theatre and works on grammar. In Rome he had been received into the restricted cultural circle of
Trissino did not demolish the pre-existing building, but redesigned it to give priority to the principal
Building works were certainly concluded by 1538. At the end of the eighteenth century, the Vicentine architect Ottone Calderari heavily modified the structure, and in the first years of the twentieth century a second campaign of works cancelled out the last traces of the Gothic building.
See also
- Palladian Villas of the Veneto
- Palladian architecture
References
- ^ "International Centre for the Study of the Architecture of Andrea Palladio". Archived from the original on 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
Sources
(in English and Italian) Centro Internazionali di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (with kind permission).