Villa Pisani, Bagnolo

The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, located in Bagnolo, a hamlet in the comune of Lonigo in the Veneto region of Italy.

In 1570, Palladio published a version of the villa in his I quattro libri dell'architettura.

An engraved ground plan of 1778 by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, gives a clear idea of the villa as it appeared in the 18th century.

There was originally a long barchessa (wing) at the back of the courtyard terminating in dovecotes that kept the villa supplied with squab; this wing was admired by Vasari, but it was demolished in the nineteenth century and replaced by a structure that bears no relation to the Palladian façade it faces.

[4] The interior features a central T-shaped salone with barrel vaulting inspired by Roman baths; it is decorated with frescoes.