Villa Foscari (La Malcontenta) Site Features

The portico and podium

Ionic columns on a high base, facing the Brenta -- the view that every visitor arriving by water was meant to get.

The cross-shaped hall

Palladio's central space, with the proportional relationships between rooms that make this a textbook building.

The Zelotti frescoes

Mythological cycles across the hall and principal rooms, contemporary with the architecture.

The thermal window

A semicircular Roman bath window lighting the hall from the rear -- a direct quotation from antiquity.