Villa Valmarana (also known as Valmarana Bressan) is a patrician

villa A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became s ...

at Vigardolo,

Monticello Conte Otto Monticello Conte Otto is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of the SP248 provincial road. The main attraction is the Villa Valmarana Bressan, attributed to Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 Nove ...

, in the

province of Vicenza The Province of Vicenza ( it, Provincia di Vicenza) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Veneto region in northern Italy. Its capital city is Vicenza. The province has an area of 2,722.53 km², and a total population of 865,082 (as o ...

, in northern

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. The building is attributed to

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 ...

on the basis of an extant drawing of the villa that is undoubtedly by the architect. The villa was constructed during the 1540s, and is one of Palladio's earlier works. It was commissioned by two cousins of the Valmarana family. The layout of the rooms suggests that Palladio's mandate was to provide accommodation for two nuclear families. The design also shows the influence of buildings from antiquity, which Palladio had seen on his first visit to

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in 1541. The villa is decorated with frescoes, some of which date from the 16th century; they are more or less contemporaneous with the original occupation of the building. In 1996,

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included the building in the

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named " City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".

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{{Authority control Andrea Palladio buildings Valmarana Bressan Palladian villas of Veneto

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