Villa Valmarana ai Nani
This by the frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo famous Villa Valmarana ai Nani is located south of Vicenza , very close to the Villa Rotonda of Andrea Palladio .
The name “Nani”, dwarfs, comes from the grotesque figures on the garden wall. Connected to this is a story: the small daughter of the house was supposed to be comforted by these similar figures.
The manor house was built in 1669 for the lawyer and writer Gian Maria Bertolo (1631–1707), presumably by Francesco Muttoni , and passed into the possession of the Counts of Valmarana at the beginning of the 18th century. From these the guest house, the stables and the gate system were added.
Mansion
The fame of this simple villa is made up of the frescoes carried out in 1757 by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son Domenico .
The five rooms of the villa show five thematic areas, which were designed almost exclusively by Giambattista Tiepolo, the father:
- Middle room: Iphigenia in Aulis (victims of Iphigenia)
- 1st room on the left: Torquato Tasso (The Liberated Jerusalem : Tale of Rinaldo and Armida )
- 2nd room on the left: Virgil ( Aeneid : Aeneas and the founding of Rome )
- 1st room on the right: Homer ( Iliad : Dispute between Agamemnon and Achilles )
- 2nd room on the right: Ariost ( The mad Roland : Medoro and Angelica)
Guest house (Forestiera)
The earthbound “small” subjects of the guest house are in no way inferior to the “big” literary themes of the manor house in terms of artistic weight. The son Domenico was mainly active here. The rooms were decorated with depictions of the gods of Olympus, peasant life, carnival scenes and chinoiseries.
Manor house, garden side
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Angelica and Medoro
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo : Eurybates and Talthybios lead Briseis to Agamemmon
Peasant scene , fresco by Domenico Tiepolo
Chinese prince at the fortune teller by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
The Villa Valmarana
literature
- Gerda Bödefeld, Berthold Hinz : The villas in Veneto. An art and cultural history journey to the land between the edge of the Alps and the Adriatic arc. DuMont, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7701-1838-3 ( DuMont documents. DuMont art travel guide ).
- Michelangelo Muraro, Paolo Marton: The villas in Veneto. Könemann, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-89508-214-7 .
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Coordinates: 45 ° 32 ′ 6 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 23 ″ E