The original Palladian garden between the 16th and the 17th century
There is no certain documentary testimony to the original layout of Villa Emo’s garden apart from a brief description by Palladio himself...
The 18th century layout
In 1731 Giovanni Emo commissioned the measuring, listing and description of all the land he owned near Piombino, Fanzolo and neighbouring...
The garden in the late 1800s
The third chapter on the evolution of Villa Emo’s garden is dated 1868. A file of few pages for that year is kept in the Emo...
Villa Emo’s garden between the 20th and the 21st century
Some photographs from the first years of the 1900s reveal how the garden, designed by Arch. Negrin, evolved. The 1900 photo by A....
​The façade of Villa Emo
Like in Villa Barbaro in Maser, which is of the same period and not very far, the pediment’s gable in Villa Emo is decorated by the...
The sculptures in Villa Emo’s garden
The collocation of the sculptures in the front garden of Villa Emo, dates back to the 1920s. This thesis is supported by the...
The Emo family’s coat of arms
The winged Victories and the statues in the garden are not the only sculptures in Villa Emo. Part of this decorative sector is the wooden...
The façade of Villa Emo
The positioning of Villa Emo in the wider property is based on two directions that are perpendicular to each other, a horizontal one...
The barchesse
The barchesse, that is the two long porticoed side wings which start from the main body of the villa, are at the core of the agricultural...
The oratory of Villa Emo
The existence of a place of worship in the building by Andrea Palladio is rather confused and controversial. The scholar Donata...
