Barbaran da Porto Palace
The only palace of mine that I was able to see finished was the one for Count Montano Barbarano, an excellent musician, passionate about...
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- Jan 17
- 1 min
Saint Francis of the Vineyard Church
The Franciscans had built it three centuries earlier on a vineyard, the great Jacopo Sansovino - proto of Venice before me - had...
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
Villa Zeno
With each passing year I took a step deeper into the heart of Venice. The Zeno, or Zen, one of the twelve ancient houses in Venice, in...
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
Villa Chiericati
Giovanni Chiericati was the brother of Girolamo, so I was building the palace on the island of Vicenza. The villa was the first occasion...
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Villa Thiene in Quinto Vicentino
Like Palazzo Thiene, the Villa for Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene was also designed by the great Giulio Romano, the family architect who...
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Villa Pisani in Montagnana
Brother of Zuanne, father of Carrier, Daniele and Marco of the Villa di Bagnolo, was Francesco Pisani, another Venetian patrician whom I...
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Villa Emo
I had my wings unfold to offer the maximum opening, the widest image to the eye, of what was transformed from a house into a palace with...
- Dec 13, 2022
- 1 min
Valmarana Braga Palace
Giovanni Alvise, the emperor's first reference here in Vicenza, was one of my great supporters, from the very beginning. He, obviously...
- Dec 13, 2022
- 1 min
Chiericati Palace
Gerolamo Chiericati had been one of my first supporters, together with Giangiorgio Trissino and Giovanni Alvise Valmarana, to obtain the...
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
Villa Saraceno
I had learned in Rome that there was not always a need for great ornamentation and pomp for an architecture to be harmonious and...
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
Redentore Church
I was 67 when a terrible plague epidemic broke out in the middle of summer, killing one in three Venetians. After a year, the Senate...
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
Villa Trissino in Meledo - Barchesse
If the city palace in Contrà Riale for Ludovico and Francesco Trissino has remained on paper, their villa has been started, one can read...
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
Palazzo da Porto Breganze
Poetry. It is poetry created by history, which I could never have come up with on my own. Also because the Porto, or Da Porto, wanted a...
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
Hospitality architecture: Palladio, Bernini or Vanvitelli?
The Barchesse of Villa Badoer in Fratta Polesine have an unusual shape: we could define it as an embrace shape. In fact, they start from...
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
The old churches of Vicenza: Duomo Cathedral of S. Maria Annunziata.
In Vicenza, which in 49 B.C. it became a Roman municipium, in the corner of the cardo with the current Lampertico contrà was the domus, a...
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
The old churches of Vicenza: Basilica dei S.S. Felice and Fortunato
In Roman times, south of the Via Postumia, there was a pagan necropolis, where even the first Christians buried their dead; here...
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
It was another world
Vicenza was much more beautiful in the past years. The railway station was monumental before it was bombed. From the station avenue you...
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min