Villa Zeno
| Villa Zeno | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Palladian |
| Town or city | Cessalto |
| Country | Italy |
| Construction started | 1550s |
| Completed | modified over the centuries |
| Client | Marco Zeno |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Andrea Palladio |
Villa Zeno is a patrician villa designed byAndrea Palladio. It is at Cessalto, Italy. It is near the highway between Venice and Trieste and is the most easterly of Palladio's villas.
History
Palladio's building for the Zeno family an has been dated to the 1550s. It is one of the villas illustrated in I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, the architect's influential publication of 1570, although it has since been modified. It has a facade with an arched passageway and a well defined central pediment, the latter is a stylistic feature of several Palladian villas.
In 1996 it was designated by UNESCO as part of the World Heritage Site Palladian Villas of the Veneto.
See also
External links
- Description of the villa from www.cisapalladio.org
- Architectural Reference drawings of The Villas of Palladio
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