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Theoretician of architecture, to which he devoted his "Four Books", long famous, Palladio displayed all his knowledge and all his art in the "Villa Barbaro", built for a Venetian ambassador, who was moreover an eminent humanist deeply versed in mathematics, and an owner better able than any other to appreciate the subtleties in the construction of this dwelling and the carefully studied proportions of its different rooms.
These had been established according to the Pythagorean conception of the 'harmonic relationships' of numbers and they dictated the exterior proportions of the building.
The "Villa Barbaro" is halfway between the 'temple-villas' Palladio had built previously and the "palace-villas" with two stories of colonnades, a little too ostentatious for the country, that he was to build later.
Conceived to blend with the surrounding countryside, the "Villa Barbaro" is the most remarkable Palladian villas.
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