The most classic and famous inscription is undoubtedly «Pax tibi Marce Evangelista meus» spread over a total of 8 lines, but what does it means? Throughout the centuries different and alternative inscriptions have been used not least in order to preserve a historical and cultural...
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The Venetian villas are noble residences built between the fifteenth and nineteenth century, by illustrious architects and artists of the Veneto, for the patriciate of the Republic of Venice, in the countryside of the Po Valley. There are more than five thousand villas....
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Three Palladian villas as UNESCO Heritage Site, around Treviso, a few tens of kilometers from our workshop: Villa Barbaro, Villa Emo and Villa Zeno. They were designed by the architect Andrea Palladio, built around the middle of the 16th century....
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Between 1994 and 1996, 24 Palladian villas built and designed by the architect Andrea Palladio became UNESCO World Heritage Site. They are present in almost every province, except in Belluno, most are in Vicenza....
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The Palladian villas belong to the large family of Venetian villas and were designed by Palladio in the mid-sixteenth century for local aristocratic families and high-middle-class representatives of the Venetian Republic. ...
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Andrea Palladio was the official architect of the Serenissima. His real name was Andrea di Pietro della Gondola. He designed villas and palaces, built especially in Veneto, recognised by the UNESCO as World Heritage....
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The fortune of Istrian stone is linked to the development of Venice during the Serenissima. Why Venetians fall in love with the Istria stone? The first works in Istrian stone, in Venice, were simple squared blocks of rock, called “conci”. From the XIIIth century it...
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The Istrian stone has been widely used in Italy, especially in Venice, in the architecture and in structural and artistic works, both for its chromatic and technical qualities. In ancient, medieval and modern times majestic monuments, historic buildings, churches, bridges, canals and wells were built. ...
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Zanni was a character of the comic theater of the ancient Rome later became mask of the Commedia dell’Arte, also called Commedia degli Zanni, because the characters were identified with the servants farmers of the Venetian nobles coming from the Venetian-Lombardy countryside where Gianni name...
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The Lion of Saint Mark is a winged lion that symbolically represents Saint Mark the Evangelist, patron of Venice. It is a symbol used to give an immediate and unique sign of identity and power. ...
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