Andrea Palladio e Verona. Committenti, progetti e opere

In the Four Books of Architecture, Andrea Palladio recalls two palaces and two villas designed or built in Verona or in veronese area, mentioning the patrons Marcantonio and Annibale Serego and Giambattista Della Torre. After some archival discoveries due to Giuseppe Biadego, new documents testified Palladio also worked at the request of Federico and Antonio Maria Serego near Cologna Veneta. The research, through a systematic examination of public and private archives and the “Carteggio Serego” kept at the Public Library of Verona, has historically sought to deepen the biographies of the pallandian’s patrons of Verona, with particular attention to the network of relationships that entertained with other nobles of Verona , Vicenza and Venice, especially those related to Palladio. What emerged was a framework of relations that has allowed us to place especially in the context of the Serego closer palladian’s patrons. Similarly, the relations maintained by Giambattista Della Torre and the Serego family with artists have confirmed their assiduous of context particularly close to Palladio. Several unpublished documents have also allowed us to better determine the history and texture of some palladian buildings, and some workers linked to sites or previous buildings of Sanmicheli, or used by Palladio in his other constructions. Deepening the patronage Veronese of Andrea Palladio therefore allowed to re-evaluate the work in Verona of the architect, contextualizing no longer a marginal compared to the buildings and the milieu of Vicenza, but at the center of a wide range of interests and ties that laced his purchasers of Verona with those of Vicenza and Venice.