Villa Arnaldi
Sarego, Italy
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Villa Arnaldi, located in Meledo di Sarego in the Province of Vicenza, is an unfinished Renaissance villa designed by Andrea Palladio in 1547. Commissioned by Vincenzo Arnaldi, one of Vicenza's wealthiest citizens, the project involved restructuring a fifteenth-century agricultural complex that Arnaldi had acquired. Palladio's design reorganized the irregular medieval buildings into regular geometric forms, establishing symmetry within the spatial layout and defining a formal farmyard. The house centers on a loggia with three arches, flanked by rectangular openings (now blocked), with windows framed in Palladio's characteristic mouldings. Construction ceased in 1565 when Arnaldi settled a legal dispute with a previous owner and chose to rent the property instead. The villa's incomplete state uniquely documents Palladio's architectural process—the transformation of an existing structure into Renaissance design principles—visible here in signed drawings and the partially realized building itself.
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- villa
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- Sarego, Italy
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