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Villa Valmarana Scagnolari Zen (Lisiera)
in Lisiera, Bolzano Vicentino, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
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The Villa Valmarana (also known as Valmarana Scagnolari Zen) is a Renaissance villa situated in Lisiera, a locality of Bolzano Vicentino, province of Vicenza, northern Italy. Designed by Andrea Palladio, it was originally built in the 1560s for the Valmarana family. The villa was nearly totally destroyed during World War II, but has been rebuilt. Even before the war damage, the building did not closely resemble the plan which Palladio published in his I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) of 1570, possibly because Gianfrancesco Valmarana, the architect's client, died while his house was being built.
In 1996, UNESCO included the villa in the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto".
The family of Gianalvise Valmarana, portrayed together with his wife Isabella Nogarola and eight of their twelve children. From left to right, the head of the family, politician and supporter of Palladio, then the consort who holds Massimiliano in his arms and who will continue the construction of the family palace after the death of her husband. Follow Margherita, Penelope, Ascanio, valiant man of arms already in knight clothes, Isotta, Antonio, Deianira, and finally Leonardo astride his wooden horse. Leonardo will later finish the construction of Villa Valmarana, after his uncle Gianfrancesco's death. Painting by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo (1530-1572).