Villa Valmarana, Renaissance manor house in Lisiera, Italy.
Villa Valmarana is a Renaissance manor house in Bolzano Vicentino, in the province of Vicenza. It has a two-story facade with an Ionic columned hall on the ground floor and a broad gable above the main entrance.
Work began in 1563 to designs by Andrea Palladio, the most prominent architect of the Venetian Renaissance. After the patron died, the building was altered and moved away from Palladio's original plans.
The villa sits among other country houses from the same era, making it easy to compare styles and details. Walking past the facade, a visitor can read the conventions of Venetian noble architecture directly in the stone.
The manor stands on Via della Ferrovia and is easy to see from the street at any time of year. The exterior can be viewed freely without any restrictions, so a short stop on foot is all it takes.
In Palladio's own treatise published in 1570, the drawings show a different building from what was actually built. This makes the house a rare case where you can compare a published design directly with the real structure standing in front of you.
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