Villa Trissino Trettenero
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The Villa Trissino Trettenero is a sixteenth-century villa associated with the architect Andrea Palladio. It is sometimes called the Villa Trissino (Cricoli) referring to its location in Cricoli, just outside Vicenza.
[edit] History
In the 1530s Gian Giorgio Trissino remodeled the family house at Cricoli to incorporate classical features, and tradition relates that he engaged the young Palladio as a master mason[1]. What Palladio may have actually designed of the building as we see it today is debatable. Some of the proportions used are typical of Palladio, but Trissino was an amateur architect and may have been responsible for them. In any case, the building has been modified since the sixteenth century.
The building is of undeniable importance in the Palladio "mythos". Since 1994 the villa has been part of a World Heritage Site which was designated to protect the Palladian buildings of Vicenza. (In 1996 UNESCO extended the site to cover the Palladian Villas outside the core area and renamed it as "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto").
Palladio was undoubtedly the designer of another (incomplete) Villa Trissino some 20 km away at Sarego, as documented by his published plan in I quattro libri dell'architettura ("The Four Books of Architecture").
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[edit] See also
Palladian Villas of the Veneto
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