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Villa Foscari

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298: 359: 186: 216: 413: 447: 433: 245: 290: 371: 38: 528:(1911–1994) inherited the villa from Landsberg. He began restoration, but sold the house in 1973 to count Antonio ("Tonci") Foscari (b. 1938), a descendant of the former owners and professor for architecture and preservation. He and his wife, Barbara del Vicario, undertook a painstaking process of restoring it to its original grandeur. In 2012, Foscari wrote of the villa's renaissance. 863: 223: 193: 475:
Albert Clinton Landsberg had, nine years earlier, found the villa "at the point of ruin, doorless and windowless, a granary of indeterminate farm-produce. He has made it a habitable dwelling. The proportion of the great hall and state rooms are a mathematical paean." The villa had indeed been vacated
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canal and is raised on a pedestal, which is characteristic of Palladio's villas; this pedestal is more massive than most of Palladio's villas (the base is 11 feet (3.4 m) high, more than twice the height Palladio normally used) because it was not possible to construct a subterranean basement on
484:, based in Paris and London, had found the house in the above described condition, then leased the villa from the Foscari family, and undertook some renovation work. Bertie Landsberg had purchased the villa in 1926, together with his friends Paul Rodocanachi and 664:, Lars Müller Publisher 2012. The hosts were the "protagonists of a peculiar world, where the avant-guards, the lost aristocracies of the whole Europe, the revolutionaries and the dandies shared a considerable sense of freedom". 281:("The Discontented"), a nickname which—according to a legend—it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly did not live up to her conjugal duty. 370: 358: 1221: 536: 69: 327:
The villa lacks the agricultural buildings which were an integral part of some of the other Palladian villas. It was used for official receptions, such as that given for
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in the early 19th century, the surrounding stables and other buildings had fallen apart and were demolished by Austrian troops during the
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alternate with allegories of the Arts and Virtues. As at other Palladian villas, the paintings reflect villa life in, for example,
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in 1939 and only returned to the villa in 1947. Kate d'Erlanger moved to
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The villa was commissioned by the brothers Nicolò and Alvise (Luigi)
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in 1574. It has been proposed that the villa was the home of
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Since 1996 the building has been conserved as part of the
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City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
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visited the villa in 1933 and afterwards wrote that
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La Malcontenta: 1924-39 348:inspired the ones used on the façade of 570: 408: 354: 945:Palazzo Pretorio (Cividale del Friuli) 526:Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore 492:during summer seasons: choreographer 222: 192: 114: 106: 94: 84: 74: 64: 43: 7: 580:"7 Highlights of the Brenta Riviera" 201:Location of Villa Foscari in Veneto 14: 1190:I quattro libri dell'architettura 1106:Villa Trissino (Meledo di Sarego) 800:Convento della Carità (cloisters) 524:. 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UNESCO World Heritage Site

Location
Mira
Province of Venice
Veneto
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
Criteria
712bis-021
Session
www.lamalcontenta.com
Coordinates
45°26′7″N 12°12′4″E / 45.43528°N 12.20111°E / 45.43528; 12.20111
Villa Foscari is located in Veneto
Villa Foscari is located in Italy

Brenta
patrician
villa
Mira
Venice
Andrea Palladio


Foscari
Francesco Foscari
doges
Brenta
Henry III of France
Portia

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