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Palladio's most celebrated villa, "Villa Capra", also known as "Villa Rotunda", is romantically situated on the outskirts of the town of Vicenza, on a hill, in a pastroal wooded landscape to which the temple architecture is peculiarly suited.
Palladio found little guidance for the design of private houseds in Vitruvius's "De Architectura".
He therefore fashioned them like the houses of the gods.
The Villa Rotunda (or Villa Capra) is the earliest design in which the columnn, hitherto reserved for sacred buildings, was used for domestic architecture.
Furthermore, the Villa Capra (or Rotunda) is built on the plan of a Greek cross, a form previously limited to churches.
The Villa Capra is a perfect square with pillared porticos like Greek temple fronts on each side and a circular hall with a low dome.
The building is of brick coated with stucco and the statues on the pediment are of limestone.
No house had ever before been planted in this way, and the influence it exerted was widespread.
The Villa Capra (or Villa Rotunda) was copied by Lord Burlington at Chiswick and by Colin Campbell at Mereworth, Kent.
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