Villa Foscari, " La Malcontenta" is certainly one of Palladio's most fascinating works. A majestic house, anciently modern, of an ancient Venetian house, that of the Foscari precisely, which carries with it the spirit of Nicolò's ancestor, or one of the most important doges of the Republic. Francesco Foscari's dogship , over a century before the construction of the villa, was the longest in the history of the Serenissima , undoubtedly marking the beginning of a new era for V

Yesterday we returned to visit Palazzo Grimani in Venice . A place suspended, enchantingly, between different dimensions of soul and reason : it is worth attempting the hint of a sketch, so that enthusiasts can find inspiration to delve deeper. Giovanni Grimani was the Patriarch of Aquileia , a title that had long been a monopoly of the family. Venice, however, was pushing for a change of hands, leveraging the accusations of heresy that involved him and which would never lea

The Accademia Galleries have just opened a whole new section, six rooms along the splendid Palladian loggia, an extraordinary architectural space that not many people know about. Andrea, as we know, like Proto, does not even create a public work in Venice. Not the Rialto Bridge, not the reconstruction of the Doge's Palace after the fire: nothing to be done. However, he is the architect of the families linked to the ecclesiastical world: here are the wonderful churches, such

«It is nothing more than a spiral staircase, but you never get tired of going up and down» , wrote Goethe in his Journey to Italy. There is one project, in Palladio's Four Books , only one "modern" project, not Italian. It is the double elliptical staircase of the Château de Chambord, in France. As everyone knows, Leonardo Da Vinci decided to end his career, and his life, at the court of the cultured and refined Francesco I, with the high-sounding title of premier peintre,

The Valmarana family , that of Giovanni Alvise and his much praised wife, and later widow, Isabella Nogarole. The Valmarana family of Palazzo Valmarana (now Braga Rosa), where we are based, the business network of the Palladians, the owners of the Palladio Villas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. That of Leonardo, prince of the Olympic Academy at the Olympic Theatre. Well, that Valmarana family lives here, still, in these walls, here among the environments in which we work, here

The feeling was that of having something important to say, or rather to do, but not knowing how. The world sparkled around him, but behind the confines of his workshop, beyond the entrance halls of the patrician palaces, and beyond the walls of that Venetian city, beyond the curves of an ancient Roman road that was lost towards dreams of silk and into excavations of other lost worlds, reborn as phoenixes. Andrea moved away a little from the almost complete Ionic capital to te

Vicenza is an ancient dream , into which today we can still dive, abandoning ourselves, forgetting for a moment, for a day, for a week, that everything must be done for something, that there must be a small, daily, concrete purpose. Forgetting a life of survival and savoring, inhaling, aspiring to something great, magnificent, ideal. Vicenza is real, but there is also a Vicenza that exists "beyond" . Which exists in the wings of the Teatro Olimpico, in the minds of Giangio

On Sunday, the 21st, Palazzo Valmarana Braga in Vicenza, our venue, will host the Italian Historic Houses Association's event. It is an opportunity to evoke a glorious moment of one of the most beautiful palaces in the UNESCO-listed Palladian heritage. As often happens, it arises from a tragic event, namely the bombing of the palace during World War II, on that 18th of March when it was partially destroyed, reduced to an apparently irrecoverable ruin , except for the extraord

Vicenza is Palladio for everyone, and we couldn't agree more. But Palladio is also a beginning of something that goes on , here in our city and in the surrounding lands, as well as in the rest of the world. Palladio lives on in those who have followed him as architects and more broadly as artists because we can see Palladio's influence in painting and sculpture as well. At Villa Loschi Zileri, just a stone's throw from Vicenza, a memory of Palladio, which may feel distant to