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'''Villa Repeta''' in [[Campiglia dei Berici]], [[Province of Vicenza]], Italy, is a [[villa veneta]] built in 1672, substituting a pre-existing villa designed by [[Andrea Palladio]] about 1557 and destroyed by a fire.
'''Villa Repeta''' is a [[patrician villa]] in [[Campiglia dei Berici]], [[province of Vicenza]], northern Italy. It was built in 1672, substituting a pre-existing villa designed by Italian Renaissance architect [[Andrea Palladio]] about 1557 and destroyed by a fire.
[[File:Villa Repeta Palladio Quattro Libri 1570.jpg|thumb|left|Project for the (destroyed) villa published by Andrea Palladio in ''[[I quattro libri dell'architettura]]'' (Venice, 1570)]]
[[File:Villa Repeta 20070706-5.jpg|thumb|Detail of the facade]]
[[File:Villa Repeta 20070706-4.jpg|thumb|Rear prospect]]


==History==
It is fruitless to seek Palladio amongst the seventeenth-century forms of the present Villa Repeta. The villa which Palladio built for Mario Repeta or at least the initial results of his building campaign was destroyed by fire at an unspecified date, sometime between 1640 and 1672, when it was therefore replaced by the existing new edifice. Therefore Palladio’s Villa Repeta, designed around 1557, can only be reconstructed on the basis of the plate in the ''[[Quattro Libri]]'', although recent studies have raised serious doubts that the engraving can effectively correspond to the project. Rather they suggest that this plate represents Palladio’s usual, a posteriori, theoretical, re-elaboration of an idea, which was in reality compromised by major pre-existing features.
[[File:Villa Repeta Palladio Quattro Libri 1570.jpg|thumb|left|Floor plan of the (destroyed) villa published by Andrea Palladio in ''[[I quattro libri dell'architettura]]'' (Venice, 1570)]]
The villa which Palladio built for Mario Repeta or at least the initial results of his building campaign was destroyed by fire at an unspecified date, sometime between 1640 and 1672, when it was replaced by the existing new edifice. Therefore, Palladio’s Villa Repeta, designed around 1557, can only be reconstructed on the basis of the plate in the ''[[I quattro libri dell'architettura]]'', although recent studies have raised serious doubts that the engraving can effectively correspond to the project. Rather they suggest that this plate represents Palladio’s usual, a posteriori, theoretical, re-elaboration of an idea, which was in reality compromised by major pre-existing features.


==Architecture==
In any case, the project remains extraordinary among Palladio’s output: the structure has a continuous, [[Doric order]], [[portico]] of only one [[storey]], which develops entirely horizontally around a rectangular [[courtyard]]. The only vertical elements are the two [[dovecote]]s at the corners of the complex.
In any case, the project remains extraordinary among Palladio’s output: the structure has a continuous, [[Doric order]], [[portico]] of only one [[storey]], which develops entirely horizontally around a rectangular [[courtyard]]. The only vertical elements are the two [[dovecote]]s at the corners of the complex.


Without the usual hierarchical dialogue between a dominant manorial house and agricultural annexes, the design of the villa might represent the product of a precise initiative on the part of the patrons and reflect the heterodox and egalitarian ideas of the Repeta family (Mario Repeta was denounced to the [[Holy Office]] in 1569), restless protagonists in the public life of Vicenza during the 16th century (Cinquecento).
Without the usual hierarchical dialogue between a dominant manorial house and agricultural annexes, the design of the villa might represent the product of a precise initiative on the part of the patrons and reflect the heterodox and egalitarian ideas of the Repeta family (Mario Repeta was denounced to the [[Holy Office]] in 1569), restless protagonists in the public life of Vicenza during the 16th century.


The actual villa was built 1672 by Enea and Scipione Repeta.
The actual villa was built 1672 by Enea and Scipione Repeta.


== See also ==
==See also==
*[[Palladian Villas of the Veneto]]
*[[Palladian Villas of the Veneto]]
*[[Palladian architecture]]


== Sources ==
==External links==
{{Commons category|Villa Repeta (Campiglia dei Berici)}}
{{Commons category|Villa Repeta (Campiglia dei Berici)}}
*[http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?architettura=31&sezione=4&lingua=e Villa Repeta in CISA website] (source for the first revision of this article, with kind permission)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071025042546/http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?sezione=4&architettura=31&lingua=e Villa Repeta in CISA website]


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Latest revision as of 16:20, 18 February 2024

Villa Repeta.

Villa Repeta is a patrician villa in Campiglia dei Berici, province of Vicenza, northern Italy. It was built in 1672, substituting a pre-existing villa designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio about 1557 and destroyed by a fire.

History[edit]

Floor plan of the (destroyed) villa published by Andrea Palladio in I quattro libri dell'architettura (Venice, 1570)

The villa which Palladio built for Mario Repeta – or at least the initial results of his building campaign – was destroyed by fire at an unspecified date, sometime between 1640 and 1672, when it was replaced by the existing new edifice. Therefore, Palladio’s Villa Repeta, designed around 1557, can only be reconstructed on the basis of the plate in the I quattro libri dell'architettura, although recent studies have raised serious doubts that the engraving can effectively correspond to the project. Rather they suggest that this plate represents Palladio’s usual, a posteriori, theoretical, re-elaboration of an idea, which was in reality compromised by major pre-existing features.

Architecture[edit]

In any case, the project remains extraordinary among Palladio’s output: the structure has a continuous, Doric order, portico of only one storey, which develops entirely horizontally around a rectangular courtyard. The only vertical elements are the two dovecotes at the corners of the complex.

Without the usual hierarchical dialogue between a dominant manorial house and agricultural annexes, the design of the villa might represent the product of a precise initiative on the part of the patrons and reflect the heterodox and egalitarian ideas of the Repeta family (Mario Repeta was denounced to the Holy Office in 1569), restless protagonists in the public life of Vicenza during the 16th century.

The actual villa was built 1672 by Enea and Scipione Repeta.

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

45°20′33″N 11°32′23″E / 45.3425°N 11.5396°E / 45.3425; 11.5396