Castello del Catajo

Castello del Catajo

Castello del Catajo is a patrician house near the town of Battaglia Terme, province of Padua, Italy.

It had its origins in a simple villa that was rebuilt and extravagantly enlarged in the manner of a feudal castle from 1570 onwards by Marchese Pio Enea I degli Obizzi, a member of an important Italian family of French origin. The house contains a vast cycle of historical battle scenes frescoed in 1571–2 by Giambattista Zelotti (1525–1578) a pupil of Paolo Veronese; he began with Roman times and culminated in the military triumphs of Pio Enea degli Obizzi, which were recreated in the gardens with tourneys and spectacles. His nephew Pio Enea II enlarged the complex with the grand entrance courtyard, announced by sculptures on high drum pedestals, which is dominated by the Baroque "Elephant" fountain.

In the 19th century the estate passed to Francis V, Duke of Modena, who in turn left it to the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. During the First World War the castle was inherited by Charles I of Austria, the last Emperor of Austro-Hungary, but it was sequestered as war reparations by the Italian State, which sold it in 1926 to the Dalla Francesca family, who currently open it to the public.

References

Irma B. Jaffe, with Gernando Colombardo "Zelotti’s Epic Frescoes at Cataio"ISBN: 9780823227426
Fordham University Press 2008


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