Villa Cornaro, Renaissance villa in Piombino Dese, Italy.

Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km northwest of Venice. Its north facade has a projecting two-storey portico-loggia of six columns, with the upper columns behind a stone balustrade and a triangular pediment above. The central core is a rectangle of six repeated modules, and the side wings were completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi in 1596.

Giorgio Cornaro commissioned the villa in 1551, and Palladio's main block was habitable by 1554, though only the central core stood at his wedding that June. Giorgio died at Lepanto in 1571; his son Gerolamo had Camillo Mariani carve ancestor statues for the salone in 1588, and Vincenzo Scamozzi added the great barchessa in 1596. The 1655 completion was overseen by Andrea Corner, with stuccos by Bortolo Cabianca and paintings by Mattia Bortoloni.

The name Cornaro (Cornèr in Venetian) recalls the family documented at Piombino Dese since 1422. Inside, Mattia Bortoloni painted over one hundred frescoes from 1717: Old Testament scenes on the first floor, New Testament on the second. Six sculptural portraits by Camillo Mariani, commissioned in 1588, show family figures including Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, Doge Marco Cornaro and Admiral Giorgio Cornaro.

Visits are by booking made before the day of arrival; the villa is not open for walk-in tours. The complex stands in Piombino Dese, about 30 km northwest of Venice, and the main body faces the public road. Groups should reserve in advance so entry is confirmed.

The six ancestor portraits in the salone were commissioned from sculptor Camillo Mariani in 1588, eight years after Palladio's death. They depict figures including Doge Marco Cornaro, Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, and Admiral Giorgio Cornaro.