Villa Pisani Bonetti
In a few years since the beginning of my education, the word had begun to spread, and this was my first villa for a Venetian family: the...
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- 6 days ago
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Valmarana Lounge
Mine or not mine? Mine in any case, to the extent that mine is the “Palladian” style that was already beginning to be imitated in my...
- 6 days ago
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Bollani Arch
Domenico Bollani was an important official of the Serenissima. Ambassador to London in those same years of Daniele Barbaro, later mayor...
- Aug 31
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Villa Godi Malinverni
My first villa! I was still collaborating with the Pedemuro workshop, the most renowned construction company in Vicenza, as a specialist...
- Aug 24
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Maser's Villa
What Giangiorgio Trissino had been in the first part of my story, the Barbaro brothers were in the second. Among the most important...
- Aug 22
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Villa Badoer
The "Magnifico Signor Francesco Badoero", actually not as important as the surname he bore, had joined with a Loredàn, thus inheriting...
- Aug 18
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Villa Angarano
Enlightened patrician from Vicenza, I am honored to have been a great friend of Giacomo Angarano, who hosted the wedding of my daughter...
- Aug 12
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Palladian Basilica
The pride of my life: the most important public work of the city that adopted me. Not Sansovino, not Sanmicheli, not Giulio Romano. Among...
- Aug 10
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Villa "La Malcontenta"
I was finishing the illustration of Daniele Barbaro's work, the translation and commentary of Vitruvius's De Architectura, when I was...
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Villa Valmarana Bressan
Villa Valmarana Bressan was the first occasion in which I experienced what will later be known as the Serliana, the module of my Basilica...
- Aug 5
- 1 min
Vicenza Cathedral
I had never received any assignments for religious buildings in Vicenza in my first fifty years. My friends and clients, the Trissino,...
- Aug 4
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Barbaro Temple
With the Teatro Olimpico, my latest work. Everything was crowned, everything was finished. Now I understood: he had to be small, he had...
- Jul 30
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Villa Cornaro
Girolamo, the grandson of the queen of Cyprus-Caterina Corner, was dying: this is how his son Giorgio, who owned half the property in...
- Jul 8
- 1 min
Olympic Theater
Everything was accomplished here, in this final act. I lived an extraordinary life, and this is my gift to Vicenza, to its families, to...
- Jul 8
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Villa Contarini
The palace of one of the apostolic families of Venice, inside a huge park full of water, was built over the centuries, well beyond my...
- Jul 8
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Villa Pojana
Cavalier Bonifacio Pojana was a worthy heir to his family: a strong man of arms, with a beard that framed a powerful jaw, eyes wide and...
- Jun 16
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Valmarana Chapel
Leonardo, son of my friend Giovanni Alvise Valmarana and his very noble wife Isabella Nogarole, on the occasion of the death of his...
- Jun 15
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Villa Forni Cerato
Girolamo Forni was another of mine - not many to tell the truth - bourgeois clients. Like the notary Cogollo for example, for whom I had...
- Jun 8
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Lodge of the Captain
Now old, now "Venetian", in front of my Basilica under construction, I have the task of building the Loggia del Capitanio. Venice facing...
- Jun 3
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Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore
For the very rich congregation of the Benedictines of Venice I first created a succession of portals and huge barrel-vaulted spaces, in a...