Villa Arnaldi [SEP] architect
Villa Arnaldi
Villa Arnaldi is an historical edifice in Meledo di Sarego, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio in 1547. It remains unfinished.
The modest, incomplete Villa Arnaldi may seem like an unusual candidate for the list of Palladio's architectures. It provides evidence, however, of the process usually only visible in final results, the transformation of a pre-existing building into a new architectural style. In 1547 Vincenzo Arnaldi, one of Vicenza’s richest and most influential citizens, commissioned the
Magni lapidis Compositione et Operatione, Authore adhuc incerto";
- "Sententia Ioannis Baptistae Montani, de sublimatione";
- Pseudo-Arnaldus de Villa Nova, "Rosarius philosophorum Arnaldi de Villanova";
- "Novum lumen eiusdem vel alterius";
- Pseudo-Arnaldus de Villa Nova, "Epistola Magistri Arnaldi de Villa nova super Alchymiam ad regem Neapolitanum";
- "Liber perfecti Magisteri, qui Lumen Luminum nuncupatur . . . vocatur etiam Flos florum Arnaldi de Villanova, longe correctior & melior hactenus