Villa Trissino Trettenero

The Villa Trissino Trettenero is villa which belonged to Gian Giorgio Trissino. It was mainly built in the sixteenth century and is associated with the architect Andrea Palladio. It is sometimes called the Villa Trissino (Cricoli), referring to its location in Cricoli, just outside Vicenza.

This villa is not to be confused with the similarly named Villa Trissino some 20 km away at Sarego, an incomplete building which Palladio designed for Ludovico and Francesco Trissino, as documented in "I quattro libri dell'architettura" ("The Four Books of Architecture").

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 masonciteweb|url=http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?sezione=4&architettura=32&lingua=e |title=International Centre for the Study of the Architecture of Andrea Palladio |accessdate=2008-04-12 ] . What Palladio may have actually designed of the building as we see it today is debatable. Some of its proportions are typical of the buildings which Palladio went on to design, but Trissino was an amateur architect and it may that Trissino influenced the future work of Palladio. To further complicate the issue of attribution, the building has been modified since the sixteenth century by architects who enhanced its neo-classical appearance

Conservation

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 "Vicenza, City of Palladio" to cover the Palladian Villas outside the core area and renamed it as "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto").

References

ee also

Palladian Villas of the Veneto