Villa Poiana

Villa Poiana

Floor plan and section from I quattro libri dell'architettura (Andrea Palladio, 1570)

Fresco in the vaulted cross of the loggia

The Villa Poiana (sometimes also written Villa Pojana ) in Poiana Maggiore in the province of Vicenza , Veneto was designed by Andrea Palladio around 1548/49 for Bonifacio Poiana. The distinguishing feature of the villa is the Serliana with double cornice and five round ox eyes which, according to Ulmer, is modeled on the nymphaeum in Genazzano by Donato Bramante .

In the interior there are frescoes which, according to Palladio, were executed by "Master Bernardino Indio & Master Anselmo Canera, painters from Verona". There are allegorical figures in the vaulted cross of the loggia. In the Kaisersaal on the south side of the villa, depictions from Roman history and a painted natural landscape can be seen. The paintings in the other rooms are a little more modest. There is also a marble bust of the client in the loggia.

Web links

Commons : Villa Pojana (Pojana Maggiore)  - Collection of images

• palladiomuseum.org

See also

Palazzo Pojana

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andrea Palladio: I quattro libri dell 'architettura. = The four books on architecture. Translated from the Italian and introduced by Hans-Karl Lücke . Matrix, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-86539-176-6 (the Italian text was set after the Venice 1570 edition).
2. ^ Christoph Ulmer: Andrea Palladio. Magnus, Udine 2011, ISBN 978-88-7057-215-5 , p. 174.
3. ↑ Luca Trevisan: Palladio Villas. Photographs by Luca Sassi. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-03898-2 , p. 92.
4. ↑ Luca Trevisan: Palladio Villas. Photographs by Luca Sassi. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-03898-2 , pp. 92-107.
5. ^ Christoph Ulmer: Andrea Palladio. Magnus, Udine 2011, ISBN 978-88-7057-215-5 , pp. 179-181.

Coordinates: 45 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E