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What it is and where it is
Villa Roberti, one of the most striking examples of the Paduan and Venetian pictorial Renaissance, is a precious and surprising mid-sixteenth-century country residence, commissioned by Count Roberti to bring prestige to the rich family. It is a Venetian Villa that has preserved intact the nature in which it is immersed: a green park, featuring a romantic nineteenth-century garden, a forest with walkable paths, a brolo with a fishpond to be unearthed, and a medieval tower that stands out in the garden.
Why it is special
We may not realize it today, but the choices made for the construction and decoration of this villa, were far-sighted. Indeed, it was decided to rely on young people, who had not yet consigned their names to eternity: the design was entrusted to a young Andrea da Valle and the frescoes to the very young Giambattista Zelotti and Paolo Veronese. This makes Villa Roberti the prototype of the Venetian country villa, a model to be taken up and imitated, and a place still suspended in time, in which to breathe in all the charm of history.
Not to be missed
The fresco paintings decorating the Salone on the piano Nobile of the Villa are among the earliest works executed by that team of painters (Zelotti, Fasolo, Veronese), who in the years to come would fresco public palaces (ceiling of the Doge's Palace in Venice) and villas on the mainland. In Villa Roberti one finds in nuce decorative and stylistic solutions that would be widely taken up in the later works of these artists. The result of their collaboration was exquisite: a richly decorated villa both in the interiors of the Piano Nobile and throughout the exterior walls of the building.
A bit of history
The Roberti family was one of the most influential in Padua because of the prestige of its diplomatic appointments and the enormous wealth accumulated through its activity as bankers. Around 1544, Girolamo commissioned the architect Andrea da Valle to build the monumental complex destined to become the Roberti's home, on top of the foundations of the medieval Maccaruffo Castle, of which the Tower and the Gothic well in front of the Barchessa still remain today.
Curiosities
On the ground floor you can visit the well room with the foundations of the castle and the water cistern, as well as the ancient kitchen with the fireplace, one of the best preserved in the entire Veneto region.
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