Villa Emo is a patrician villa in the Veneto, northern Italy, near the village of Fanzolo di Vedelago. It was designed by Andrea Palladio in 1559 for the Emo family of Venice and remained in the hands of the Emo family until it was sold in 2004. Since 1996, it has been conserved as part of the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto"... It is one of the most accomplished of the Palladian Villas, showing the benefit of 20 years of Palladio's experience in domestic architecture. It has been praised for the simple mathematical relationships expressed in its proportions, both of the elevation and the dimensions of the rooms... The exterior is simple, bare of any decoration. In contrast, the interior (and the enchanting almost outside "Loggia" under the gable [Editor's note]) is richly decorated with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, who also worked on Villa Foscari and other Palladian villas.... [from WikipediA, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Emo] #Andrea_Palladio #Arrigo_Silva #Art #building #Emo #Enrico_Dalbosco #Fanzolo #gem #house #italian #Italy #palazzo #Palladio #Renaissance #Treviso #Vedelago #Venetian #veneto #Villa #Villa_Emo #ville_venete #Zelotti
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