Palladio Card…Stunning Veneto…again!!!
(August 16, 2009)
Damn, this summer has escaped and in this heat and humidity, I am just pinning away to get back to Veneto and purchase a PalladioCard for the year of Palladio celebration and, see the Festa della Ceramica in Nove, near Marostica and Bassano del Grappa. If anyone is planning on being near Venice, Verona or Trieste, you must go get your PalladioCard and visit the villas in this area.Having passed Palazzo Barbaran in early April or was that late March…anyway the bug was planted from that day on. Every time traipsing through Veneto, I have eyes only for those fabulous (not just the big villas) Palladian agricultural magnate’s homes…the working “farms” per se. The richness of those homes, landowners, working ranches; just the crumbled site of these places makes me go insane. I would adore a fabulous Palladian home…the simplicity of the windows, the elegance of the exterior and balance.
Have you ever really “looked” at a window in the Veneto? The fact the storm doors or shutters are inset from the line of the house meaning, the window opening is at least a foot and a half in depth so the glass portion of the window is nearest the interior followed
by
the shutters but still within the frame of the window opening of the
building (in the photo left, there is an example of inside the window
opening and outside, the lower windows). Then on the outside of the
opening is the decoration and thus, you have an ultra refined system of
closing off the glass portion to keep out the elements without
destroying or detracting from the finesse of the exterior Palladian elements. God, it is stupendous! I have got to find a house with these
hinged (4 panels) shutters allowing one to open them in quarters and to
fold them back so elegantly against the window opening without
disturbing the “eye candy,” if you will.Here are a few links just to w
het your appetites and while looking and planning, you must find a way to c
atch a show at the Teatro Olimipico, what a sight!! VILLA_BADOERVilla Contarini, Villa Emo, Villa Godi, Villa Poiana,The Year of Palladio, Villa di Maser, Villa Pisani, Teatro Olimpico
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