Villa Arnaldi
Villa Arnaldi is an historical edifice in Meledo di Sarego, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1547. It remains unfinished.
The modest, incomplete Villa Arnaldi may seem like an unusual candidate for the list of Palladio's villas. It provides evidence, however, of the process usually only visible in final results, the transformation of a pre-existing building into a new architectural style. In 1547, Vincenzo Arnaldi, one of Vicenza's richest and most influential citizens, commissioned the architect Andrea Palladio to restructure the 15th century (Quattrocento) agricultural complex upon its acquisition. Arnaldi wished to improve the property in order to increase its value in a legal action with one of its previous owners. However, when Arnaldi reached an agreement in 1565, he stopped the reconstruction and simply rented it out.
A series of signed drawings allow us to follow the architect's ideas for remodelling the irregular Quattrocento complex. He proposed reconfiguring the buildings into regular shapes to define its farmyard and creating a symmetry within the spatial layout of the house. He organized the house itself around a loggia with three arches and minor, rectangular openings on its flanks (still extant though now blocked), and framed its windows with his usual mouldings.
- Detail of the blind arches
- Floor plan, relief (Verlato 1998)
- Sketch by the hand of Andrea Palladio, 1547–48. Vicenza, Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana
See also
- Palladian Villas of the Veneto
- Palladian architecture
External links
- Villa Arnaldi in CISA website (source for the first revision of this article, with kind permission)
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- Convento della Carità (cloisters)
- Il Redentore
- San Francesco della Vigna (façade)
- San Giorgio Maggiore church and monastery
- Santa Maria Nova (attributed)
- San Pietro di Castello
- Tempietto Barbaro
- Valmarana Chapel
- Le Zitelle (attributed)
- Basilica Palladiana
- Casa Cogollo
- Loggia Valmarana
- Palazzo Antonini
- Palazzo Barbaran da Porto
- Palazzo del Capitanio
- Palazzo Chiericati
- Palazzo Civena
- Palazzo Dalla Torre
- Palazzo della Loggia
- Palazzo Pojana
- Palazzo Porto
- Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello
- Palazzo Pretorio (Cividale del Friuli)
- Palazzo Schio
- Palazzo Thiene
- Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare
- Palazzo Valmarana
- Villa Angarano
- Villa Arnaldi
- Villa Badoer
- Villa Barbaro
- Villa Caldogno
- Villa Capra "La Rotonda"
- Villa Chiericati
- Villa Cornaro
- Villa Emo
- Villa Forni Cerato
- Villa Foscari
- Villa Gazzotti Grimani
- Villa Godi
- Villa Piovene
- Villa Pisani, Bagnolo
- Villa Pisani, Montagnana
- Villa Pojana
- Villa Porto, Molina di Malo
- Villa Porto (Vivaro di Dueville)
- Villa Repeta
- Villa Saraceno
- Villa Serego
- Villa Thiene
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- Villa Trissino (Cricoli)
- Villa Trissino (Meledo di Sarego)
- Villa Valmarana (Lisiera)
- Villa Valmarana (Vigardolo)
- Villa Zeno
- Ponte Vecchio, Bassano
- Arco delle Scalette (attributed)
- Teatro Olimpico
- Jewel of Vicenza (attributed)
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