When was villa capra built

Thus, while the house appears to be completely symmetrical, it actually has certain deviations, designed to allow each facade to complement the surrounding landscape and topography. Hence there are variations in the facades, in the width of steps, retaining walls, etc. In this way, the symmetry of the architecture allows for the asymmetry of the landscape, and creates a seemingly symmetrical whole.

The landscape is a panoramic vision of trees and meadows and woods, with the distant Vicenza on the horizon. The northwest portico is set onto the hill as the termination of a straight carriage drive from the principal gates. This carriageway is an avenue between the service blocks, built by the Capra brothers who acquired the villa in ; they commissioned Vincenzo Scamozzi to complete the villa and construct the range of staff and agricultural buildings.

As one approaches the villa from this angle one is deliberately made to feel one is ascending from some less worthy place to a temple on high. This same view in reverse, from the villa, highlights a classical chapel on the edge of Vicenza, thus villa and town are united. Login Register Help. Search Search Keywords.

Villa Capra Rotonda Change this. Vicenza, Italy by Andrea Palladio Change this. A narrow hallway leads vaulted from each of the chambers, the central circular space, whose diameter is equivalent to the width of the gate.

The portico of Ionic volutes with their lateral move from vertical to horizontal columns of the base of the cornice and pediment. In the front, framed by a strong cornice are two oval windows, which flank the shield. The central room is covered with a great hemispherical dome. The layout of the plant outside the hearing show are completely symmetrical and a perfect match, the four walls are the same, have exactly the same proportions and remind the temples of classical antiquity with a staircase and an Ionic peristyle.

The stone was reserved for the finest details, such as bases and capitals of columns and frames of windows or garrisons. Used in stucco floors Villa Rotonda. Surfaces like those Venetian stucco as lovers of color, you change it at will. Palladian villas in the Venetian and houses are large numbers of overlays coated. On the podium of the walls of the stairs appear Lorenzo Rubini sculptures representing various classical deities.

As supporting evidence, the dome of the stucco and ceilings are the work of Augusto Rubino, Ruggiero Bascape and Domenico Fontana, and the frescoes of the dome are made by Alessandro Maganza. Mies Memorial Library. Villa Rotonda Architect:. Adrea Palladio. Google Web Search. Great Buildings. Subscribers - login to skip ads. Vicenza , Italy map. Construction System. Italian Renaissance. A major classic of the Pantheonic type, often known as the Villa Rotonda.

Section Drawing. Elevation Drawing. Plan Drawing. Site Plan Drawing. Villa Capra, or Villa Rotunda Commentary Situated on the top of a hill just outside the town of Vicenza, the Villa Capra is called the Villa Rotonda, because of its completely symmetrical plan with a central circular hall. The building has a square plan with loggias on all four sides, which connect to terraces and the landscape.

At the center of the plan, the two story circular hall with overlooking balconies was intended by Palladio to be roofed by a semicircular dome. However, after his death, a lower dome was built, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi and modeled after the Pantheon with a central oculus originally open to the sky. The proportions of the rooms are mathematically precise, according to the rules Palladio describes in the Quatro Libri. The building is rotated 45 degrees to south on the hilltop, enabling all rooms to receive some sunshine.

Located in the middle of a beautiful garden on a small hill on the outskirts of Vicenza, the villa is a Unesco World Heritage Site since History The design of the villa was commissioned to Palladio by wealthy Venetian priest Paolo Almerico in ; after the death of Palladio , the building was completed in by architect Vincenzo Scamozzi for the brothers Odorico and Mario Capra who had acquired it in Exterior views of Villa La Rotonda from the south and from the south-west.

Photos Inexhibit, Most of the interior decoration was completed by circa; it comprises impressive fresco paintings by various late-Renaissance artists including Anselmo Canera and Alessandro Maganza, sculptures by Lorenzo Rubini e Gianbattista Albanese, and stucco decorations by Ottavio Ridolfi and Domenico Fontana, among others.

Finally, the lower part of the central circular hall was decorated by French painter Louis Dorigny in the second half of the 17th century.

Acquired by count Attilio Valmarana in , the villa is owned today by his heirs and open to the public since Architecture Despite its monumental appearance, La Rotonda is a relatively small building.