Countryside Masterpiece

Villa Barbaro di Maser, one of Palladio's masterpieces dating back to about 1560, gives us not only excellent glasses, but also numerous examples of the trompe l'oeil technique, created by the skilful hand of the Venetian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese.

The artist was famous for his brightly colored depictions, precise details and architectural elements that he inserted into the compositions, playing with space and creating the illusion of reality. At Villa Barbaro, are famous the characters who look out curiously behind the door of a door or the fake columns, or the figure of an old nurse and Giustiniana Giustiniani, wife of Marcantonio Barbaro, who look out from balustrades and scrutinize the visitor. A world opens up in the frescoes and it almost makes you want to put your hand in, or your foot out, to see if it really is a wall or a luxuriant garden. All this in a boundless continuum of inside and outside that bring dreams to those who visit the frescoed rooms. But even the ceiling decorations do not exist, the Corinthian columns, the niches where musicians and statues find their place.

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