Villa Chiericati (also known as Villa Chiericati-Rigo ) is a villa at Vancimuglio in the Veneto , northern Italy . It was designed for Giovanni Chiericati by the architect Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s.
7-654: Palladio also designed the family's town house Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza . In 1996, UNESCO included the villa in the World Heritage Site City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto . The villa is square. A portico projects from its principal facade. (This was the first time a temple pronaos had been incorporated into a villa's design). The principal rooms are built upon
14-533: A piano nobile above a semi-basement . The upper floor is very much of secondary importance. The design of the villa was to be the prototype for Palladio's later works at the Villa Rotonda and the Villa Malcontenta . Work on the villa stopped after the death of Palladio's client. It was not finally completed until after it had been purchased by Ludovico Porto in 1574. In 1584 he employed
21-502: Is closed. The façade has two superposed orders of columns, Doric on the lower level with Ionic above. The roof line is decorated by statuary . Since 1855 the building has housed the Museo Civico ('City Museum') and, more recently, the city's art gallery. It has received international protection since 1994, along with the other Palladian buildings of Vicenza, as part of a World Heritage Site . (The site originally designated
28-435: The architect Domenico Groppino , who had collaborated with Palladio on other projects, to complete the villa. There is some debate as to the extent Groppino influenced the eventual design of the building. While the portico is undoubtedly by the hand of Palladio himself, the position of the windows is at variance with the architect's own advice in I quattro libri dell'architettura , where he warns against placing windows near
35-418: The corner of a building lest it weaken the structure (the villa does in fact reveal signs of settlement here). Palazzo Chiericati The Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza (northern Italy ), designed by Andrea Palladio . Palladio was asked to design and build the palazzo by Count Girolamo Chiericati . The architect started building the palace in 1550, and some further work
42-467: Was an islet surrounded by the Retrone and Bacchiglione streams, and to protect the structure from the frequent floods, Palladio designed it on an elevated position: the entrance could be accessed by a triple Classic-style staircase. The palazzo's principal façade is composed of three bays, the central bay projecting slightly. The two end bays have logge on the piano nobile level, while the central bay
49-466: Was completed under the patronage of Chiericati's son, Valerio. However, the palazzo was not fully finished until about 1680, possibly by Carlo Borella . Palladio also designed a country home, the Villa Chiericati , for the family. The palazzo was built in an area called "piazza dell'Isola" (island square, currently Piazza Matteotti), which housed the wood and cattle market. At that time, it
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