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Photo gallery

0 - Villa Barbaro as seen from the south 1 - The facade 2 - The Villa as seen from the entrance 3 - The tempietto 4 - The nymphaeum [grotto] 5 - Sundial 6 - Lemniscate
Map of the villa and surroundings

Maser, province of Treviso, alt. 142 m/466 feet above sea level; train station at Cornuda, 3 km/2 miles to the east.

Open to the public:

• March through October: Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 3:00 to 6:00 pm
• November through February: Saturday, Sunday and holidays 2:30 to 5:00 pm

Among the most famous achievements of Palladio, the villa blends perfectly into the slopes of the Colli Asolani [Asolo hills]; the structure has a central block and two wings similar to Villa Emo at Fanzolo. The villa is famous also for its interior frescoes by Paolo Veronese.

For other information see the site Villa di Maser.

Latest visit: 2016-08-27

• villevenetenet network of Venetian villas

• Andrea Palladio, I quattro libri dell`Architettura, D. de' Franceschi, Venezia, 1570. [Villa Barbaro p 51]. → eBook
• Andrea Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture, Isaac Ware, London, 1738. [Villa Barbaro p 49]. → eBook
• Ernesto Brunetta, Guida alle ville venete, Editoriale Programma, Treviso, 2014. [Villa Barbaro p 33].
• Ist.reg. per le ville venete, Le ville venete, Marsilio, Venezia, 1998. [Villa Barbaro pp 74-75].
• Michele Furnari, Formal Design in Renaissance Architecture from Brunelleschi to Palladio, Rizzoli, Milano, 1995. [Villa Barbaro p 171].
• Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio, tomo III, Rossi, Vicenza, 1796. [Palagio in Maser ... per i fratelli De'Barbari pp 28-34]. → eBook
• Paul Van der Ree, Gerrit Smienk, Clemens Steenbergen, Italian Villas and Gardens, Prestel, München, 1993. [Villa Barbaro p 242].
• Valeria Bovè, Ville venete, Arsenale, Venezia, 1999. [Villa Barbarigo, Pizzoni Ardemani pp 36-39].
• Wolfgang Lotz, Architettura in Italia 1500 1600, Rizzoli, Milano, 1997. [Villa Barbaro p 155].

• F. Monicelli - S. Montagner, Guida alle ville venete, Demetra, Verona, 2000