This house was built between 1560 and 1570 and it is assumed that Palladio, the designer, lived here. He designed this small building, the home of a notary, endowing it with all the elegance of the large and much more important houses he built for Venetian patricians. On the ground floor, the facade opens with a serliana framed by two Ionic columns. The two windows and the two grooved pilasters on the piano nobile provide a frame for a section of wall which, along with the second floor attic, was decorated with frescos, now lost, by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo. I was able to go inside the building which includes an open courtyard with a well. The building is currently filled with residents and an architecture firm.
Architect: Andrea Palladio
Brian Williford
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