Vicenza Cathedral
I had never received any assignments for religious buildings in Vicenza in my first fifty years. My friends and clients, the Trissino,...
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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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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...
May 30, 20221 min read
Villa Trissino ai Cricoli
Not my villa, of course, but the place where my life changed. I was working on an extraordinary construction site for me, that of the...
May 27, 20221 min read
Villa la Rotonda
For almost everyone, my greatest masterpiece. Thanks to the freedom granted to me by Paolo Almerico, in fact I was able to create a pure...
May 25, 20221 min read
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...
May 18, 20221 min read
Garda and Pindemonte
Discovering the wonders to the south of Lake Garda, Pindemonte regenerated his poetics. The poet Ippolito Pindemonte actually stayed at...
May 4, 20221 min read
The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza
The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, inaugurated in 1585, is considered the first great theatre built since antiquity and the first permanent...
Apr 20, 20221 min read
Francesco Aviani
Francesco Aviani was a painter born in Venice but who had his most prosperous career in the Vicenza area, particularly as a fresco...
Apr 14, 20221 min read
Abbey of Praglia
The most important and fascinating spiritual retreat of the Euganean mountains is located at its foot and dates back to the 11th century....
Mar 28, 20221 min read
Cima da Conegliano
Together with Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano was one of the great painters active in the...
Feb 9, 20221 min read
Who was Goldoni ?
To understand who Goldoni was, let's start by saying that he began as a child to play with puppets, that he greatly admired Molière and...
Feb 2, 20221 min read
Palladio's mentor
It is evident that, first of all for us, Giangiorgio Trissino is Andrea Palladio's mentor, in a certain sense his creator. In a broader...
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