Villa Pisani (Bagnolo)
The Villa Pisani is a location in Bagnolo di Lonigo the river Guà villa. It was built in 1542-1544 according to the plans of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio, in 1560 he designed the business wing.
History
On the plot, villa or a castle should have stood before Palladio building, which was destroyed by fire. Since about 1520 it was owned by the noble Pisani family. Palladio himself calls the three brothers Vittorio, Marco and Daniele as builders. 1544, the mansion was completed. Some years later, in 1560, Palladio was again working to build an extensive service wing. This is no longer available.
Architecture
The villa is situated on the broad side of a rectangular on all sides by a portico surrounded courtyard. It has a navigable waterway with its input side to the river Guà, at build time. The facade of the villa is divided into three parts: two lateral towers flanking a loggia, in the open three arcades. The two- tower villa was a common building type in the Veneto. Here, the towers rise, however, hardly over the building, they are not pulled forward and act not dominant compared to the middle part. The three arches in the loggia are rusticated. The upper end is a triglyphs frieze directly above it closes at over the entire width of the loggia extending triangular pediment. The simple pediment is decorated with the family arms of the owners. A simple staircase, located in Palladio's plan in the " Four Books on Architecture " over the entire width of the loggia, leads down towards the river. The facade of the courtyard is made simpler: it is smooth plastered and divided only by the window. The central axis is emphasized by three rectangular windows and a three-part Therme window. In the "Four books on architecture," the court facade is represented with a small offshore hall, which can withdraw the sides of the building relative to the central axis.
The floor plan of the villa is square. The proportions of the individual rooms are Palladio with one to two thirds of the larger, with one to 1.5 at the smaller end. The ceiling of the main hall is vaulted, the height of this area is 1.5 times the width. The other rooms have flat ceilings, their height equal to the width of the room. The horizontal layout is different to the cellar, the piano nobile and the mezzanine. For Palladio, this villa is on one level because it does not count as a full basement and mezzanine floors. In the basement were the kitchen and rooms for servants, upstairs storage rooms. Only the piano nobile served as the actual home owners. The development of the basement and first floor via stairs that are inside the building, and so is completely dark - a fact that Palladio explained by the fact that they are unimportant for the noble builders.
The extensive, non-preserved farm buildings joined the river side facing away from the villa. The whole court was surrounded with Doric columns. On the drawing in the " Four Books on Architecture " are shown two lateral staircases, through which the handling can be accessed directly from the villa.