Villa Valmarana Bressan was the first occasion in which I experienced what will later be known as the Serliana, the module of my Basilica and the solution of many of my other designs.
In my eyes it was something similar to a drawing by Raphael, for the facade of the building of San Lorenzo, something in Palazzo Tè in Mantua, but I was looking for a cleaner, lighter shape, to then amaze inside with the grandeur of the Roman thermal structures.
The first experiments, in which I still read very clearly the beginning of everything.
Villa Valmarana Bressan in Vigardolo
Artists: Andrea Palladio, Costantino Pasqualotto detto Il Costantini
Client: Antonio di Pietro e Giuseppe di Bernardino Valmarana
Project: 1542
Construction: 1542 - 1560