Palladio
Villa Barbaro at Maser
The Villa Barbaro at Maser, is featured on our Hill Towns tour which operates every Sunday & Tuesday, as well as our Palladio Villa Tour which operates every Saturday.
The Villa Barbaro at Maser was built around the 1560's by Andrea
Palladio for his friends 
the Barbaro brothers MarcAntonio and
Daniele. In particular, Daniele Barbaro played a major role in
the life of Andrea Palladio in his latter part of his career.
The Villa Barbaro at Maser, although one of the most visited of the
Palladian villas is probably the least typical of the villas constructed
by Palladio.
The Villa Barbaro at Maser, reminds us of the demands and problems
that architects of all periods of history have had to suffer through
from time to time. Andrea Palladio's architectural prowess was certainly
compromised by this project.
Firstly, because the new villa was to be built over a pre-existing
building, Palladio struggled adapting his new building to the
framework of the pre-existing structure.
Secondly, the chief patron Daniele Barbaro had studied architecture
at university and wanted to play a major role in the design of
the Villa Barbaro at Maser. In fact, when Palladio later wrote
in his four books of architecture, " architecture seems to
be something that everyone seems to think they know something
about", he was probably referring in-directly to his friend
Daniele Barbaro.
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