Villa Porto (Vivaro di Dueville) 20081204-1

Villa Porto is a

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in Vivaro di

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, northern

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, designed in 1554 and traditionally attributed to the Italian Renaissance architect

Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of th ...

, but not included by

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in the strict list of Palladian Villas of Veneto within the

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History

In 1554, Paolo Porto and his brothers divided up their father's inheritance, Paolo acquiring an estate at Vivaro, north of

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. Here, during the subsequent four years, he realised a villa which tradition holds was designed by Palladio. The Conte Paolo Porto, one of the most powerful canons of the Vicenza Cathedral (in 1550 he was on the point of becoming bishop) was a sophisticated and cultured man, who passed much time in Rome where he could count on the friendship of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Porto also numbered among his Vicentine friends and relatives Palladio's foremost patrons, men like

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, Biagio Saraceno, Bernardo Schio, and Girolamo Garzadori.

Attribution to Palladio

It is perhaps this network of friendships which most easily placed him in contact with Palladio, although in this regard careful inspection of the villa's architecture raises more doubts than certainties, for one discerns various successive constructional phases, which render the identification of an original Palladian scheme, if any, most difficult. The pronaos, for example, is grafted onto the main block with manifest discontinuity. Moreover, the two lateral wings are without doubt nineteenth-century, and actually the product of a belated "Palladianization" of the villa at the hands of the architect

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. File:Villa Porto Vivaro pianta Cevese 1971.jpg, Floor plan (drawing by Cevese, 1971) File:Villa Porto (Vivaro di Dueville) 20081204-4.jpg, The pronaos

External links

Villa Porto in CISA website
(source for the first revision of this article, with kind permission) {{coord, 45.6179, N, 11.5436, E, source:wikidata, display=title Houses completed in 1554 Andrea Palladio buildings Province of Vicenza

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1554 establishments in the Republic of Venice

History

Attribution to Palladio

See also

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