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  • Chapter Four - Estate Building

  • from Part II - Territory and Town
  • Johanna D. Heinrichs, University of Kentucky
  • Book:
    Villa and Palace in the Venetian Renaissance
    Published online:
    12 December 2024
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025, pp 141-172

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 demonstrates the gradual entrenchment of the Pisani family in the Bassa Padovana region of Venice’s mainland territories, showing that Villa Pisani formed part of a long-term strategy of estate building. Francesco Pisani’s construction in 1553–54 of his Palladian villa outside Montagnana culminated a multi-generational process of developing the family’s agricultural possessions.

Villa and Palace in the Venetian Renaissance
  • The Palladian House Between Country and City
  • Johanna D. Heinrichs
  • Published online:
    12 December 2024
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025
  • Designed by Andrea Palladio, the Villa Pisani at Montagnana was the country residence of a Venetian nobleman, Francesco Pisani. Unusually, its design combines features of both villa and palace architecture, and it challenges the conventional view of a villa as subsidiary to the urban palace, the true seat of an elite family. In this book, Johanna D. Heinrichs offers the first comprehensive study of the Villa Pisani, providing a critical analysis of Palladio's hybrid design, the villa's original setting and uses, and the preoccupations of its patron. Heinrichs argues that the Villa Pisani served as the owner's principal residence. She also shows how a microhistorical approach can provide new insights about a familiar Renaissance building type and about the theory and practice of a canonical architect. Based on scrutiny of original documents and visual sources, Heinrichs's study is supported by a rich illustration program composed of photographs, plans, maps, and digital reconstructions.