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Palazzo Valmarana Braga Rosa
now Braga Rosa
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Corso Antonio Fogazzaro, 16 tel. 3926568683 fax 0444 231721
URL: www.palazzovalmaranabraga.it
Opening times: Wednesday 10.00-12.00/15.00-18.00
Other days by booking for groups min. 15 people
Admission: € 5,00
Palazzo Valmarana was built by Andrea Palladio on an area which contained houses belonging to the same family, but the building is incomplete: the courtyard, garden and stables were never built. Gianantonio Golin rightly points out that, "if the Valmarana palace and that of M. A. Thiene had been finished according to plan, they would have made up a complex and splendid monumental weft in Vicenza's urban fabric; and with tha Barbaran da Porto, they would have posed three classical episodes springing from the mind of the Master at different times in an intelligent integration of the Roman and Gothic context of the ancient city".
However, the relationship between theoretical ad practical solutions in Palladio's work must always be kept in mind. In this context it is useful to remember what Martin Kubelìk has recently emphasised: the plan of this palace published in the "Four Books" does not completly correspond to the building actually constructed. Indeed, the palace is smaller then the one indicated in the design, and the facade, adapted to the lie of the street, does not respect the perpendicular relationship with the rear walls. He also contends that if the palace had been completed, the stables would have overlapped with part of the complex intended for count Montano Barbaran. Meaning that what is indicated in the treatise is the result of a theoretical re-elaboration.
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