Villa Cornaro

Villa Cornaro

Villa Cornaro, back side

inside view

The Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese in the province of Padua , Veneto was designed by Andrea Palladio around 1552. According to Trevisan, it presents itself as a kind of hybrid of a villa in the strict sense, i.e. a country house, and a city residence.

history

The villa was commissioned by Giorgio Cornaro, a younger son from the Venetian Cornaro family . Villa Cornaro remained in the Cornaro ownership for 253 years and then changed hands three times by 1951. After that, it stood empty for a long time and was restored from 1989 by the current owners, the American couple Gable, over a period of 20 years. The building that can be visited today was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996, along with other Palladian villas .

architecture

The form that is open to the landscape, the striving for the interaction of interior and exterior space, has been adopted from the villa, which is made clear by the extension through the short side wings and the depth of the entrance portico. The two floors go back to the city palace, and there are no agricultural annex buildings that would directly adjoin the manor house. The villa has the function of a representative building without any agricultural use.

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  Floor plan (Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1781)

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  Section (Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1781)

According to Ulmer, the central wing of the villa was ready for occupancy in 1554, but it was not completed until 1596.

Interior

The interiors remained without artistic design for years, but the original reddish brick floor from the time it was built is still preserved. It was not until 1588 that the client's son commissioned Camillo Mariani (1567–1611) for six larger than life stucco figures. They depict members of the Cornaro family, including the Queen of Cyprus Caterina Cornaro . They are set up in arcade niches in the representative salon of the villa, which is characterized by four free-standing Corinthian columns. It was not until a great-grandson of the client started the further artistic design of the building. The stucco work and the frescoes in various rooms were not completed until 1716. There are 140 frescoes by Mattia Bortoloni , which are framed by Bartolo Cabianca in stucco work with putti and floral decorations.

literature

• Sally Gable, Carl I. Gable: Palladian Days. Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House. Anchor Books, New York NY 2006, ISBN 1-4000-7873-3 .

Web links

Commons : Villa Cornaro  - collection of images

• Villa Cornaro

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luca Trevisan: Palladio Villas. Photographs by Luca Sassi. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-03898-2 , p. 123.
2. ↑ Highlights of Villa Cornaro ora Gable
3. ↑ Luca Trevisan: Palladio Villas. Photographs by Luca Sassi. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-03898-2 , p. 123.
4. ^ Christoph Ulmer: Andrea Palladio. Magnus, Udine 2011, ISBN 978-88-7057-215-5 , p. 216.
5. ↑ Camillo Mariani. 1997.
6. ↑ Luca Trevisan: Palladio Villas. Photographs by Luca Sassi. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-03898-2 , p. 129.

Coordinates: 45 ° 36 '25.6 "  N , 11 ° 59' 57.7"  E