VILLA GODI MALINVERNI (1540 Arch. Palladio)
LONEDO - via Palladio 44 - tel. 0445 860561, 339 3429942, fax 0445 860806
e-mail:info@villagodi.com - www.villagodi.com
Tue, Sat, Sun & holidays: 14-18 (mar-apr-mag-ott-nov); 15-19 (giu-lug-ago-sett)
Admission: € 6;
groups: € 5;
schools: € 4.
Different times by booking

Villa Godi Malinverni is one of the first buildings of Andrea Palladio and dates back to 1540. Its design was published by the architect in the treatise "The Four Books of Architecture", although there are several differences between the built structure and the drawing: note, for instance, how the windows are distributed and the presence of a pediment not realized.
The interiors were frescoed by three artists of si0teenth century Veronese tradition.
Battista Zelotti decorated most rooms paintings muses and poets, e0alting the classic Gods in the room of Olympus and Venus and Cupid in the adjacent room. Whereas the walls of the hall show the scenes of the fights between the emperor Ale0ander the Great and the Persian king Darius and of Jupiter's passions for Ganymede and Europe. Gualtiero Padovano is undoubtely the weakest of the painters working here, as it can be seen in Putto's room.
There are also two important collections of pictures and fossils in Villa Malinverni. The picture-gallery shows some masterpiece of the nineteenth century Italian art: there are pictures of Cremona, Hayez, Induno, Michetti, Tofano and even Segantini.