"In Lisiera, a place near Vicenza, is the following building erected by the happy memory of Mr. Gio. Francesco Valmarana."
The design of Villa Valmarana was also published by Andrea Palladio in his treatise. The architect conceived this villa around 1563 specifically for Giovanni Francesco Valmarana, who died three years later.
With his death, construction was halted and resumed several years later (some even speculate at the beginning of the Seicento) without strictly adhering to the Master's designs. In fact, Palladio had planned two hexastyle porticoes of the Ionic order, superimposed and crowned by a pediment, but only one was built, on which the upper floor rests, unfortunately flattened by the pediment.
The façade thus appears inadequate, and the relationship between the horizontal and vertical development seems disharmonious.
In 1615, the family chapel was added, while in the following century the garden was adorned with statues by Francesco Marinali the Younger.
