Villa Godi

The Villa Godi is considered the first draft of the villas young Andrea Palladio. The villa was in Lugo di Vicenza in the province of Vicenza, Veneto commissioned by Girolamo Godi, son of Enrico Antonio Godi, built and completed in 1542.

The building was declared in 1996 by UNESCO with other villas of Palladio World Heritage Site.

Interior decoration

The villa is decorated with frescoes by Gualtiero Padovano (1512-1552), Giovanni Battista Battista del Moro and Zelotti - equipped ( 1518 by 1568). The frescoes in the " Hall of the Muses " show poet and the Muses in a utopian Arcadia, framed by a painted architecture. Large caryatids in grisaille support an ornate entablature, in the colored boxes cavorting putti with books and musical instruments. The poet and the nine Muses are not all exactly determine because few are equipped with attributes, which allowed a precise Identifierung.

The large fresco in the Sala dell'Olimpo shows the twelve gods of Olympus. In the Sala di Venere is, inter alia, the popular story of Venus and Mars, surprised in adultery of volcano and caught in a net, and the story of Dido and Aeneas shown. The frescoes are attributed with one exception Battista del Moro.

The small Sala delle Arti showing allegories of the arts as a gilded figures in a painted arcades architecture, framed with trophies, musical instruments and putting. A blank window opens illusionistic views in an idyllic landscape with Greek ruins.

Most rooms are equipped with chandeliers of the 17th century Murano glass.

Park

The villa was originally an Italian garden with trimmed bushes, shell fountains and sculptures. The design of this garden dates from the late 17th and early 18th century.

The former garden is now in the transformation as a park by Antonio Caregaro Negrin from 1852, which he has carried out on behalf of the then owner, Count Andrea Piovene. The one with tree lined and crossed by many paths Park surrounds a pond. A place of remembrance gathered memorials to former residents of the villa.

Museum

Villa Park and can be visited. In the villa an archaeological and natural history museum is directing, are exhibited in the fossil plants from the Oligocene, which were discovered in the 19th century in the area.

In the natural history section of the museum foraminifera, corals, snails, molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms and fish are shown.

The Villa Godi in the film

Luchino Visconti shot some scenes of his film sensors in the villa.