Villa Angarano Bianchi-Michiel

The design for the villa is inserted in the context of the "Quattro Libri dell'Architettura" (Four Books on Architecture) by Andrea Palladio, who makes an interesting note of how the location of Villa Angarano benefited from its vicinity to the River Brenta for its water supply, navigation possibilities, and abundance of fish.
In 1548, Giacomo Angarano commissioned his illustrious friend, Andrea Palladio, to build the prestigious villa that he had in mind not only as a working farm but also as a lordly dwelling.
Although construction began in 1556, the structure's central body remained unfinished. Of all the structures still standing today, the only work of Palladio is the portico/open barn that encloses the main building done up in typically Baroque style that was built between the end of the 1600s and the start of the 1700s by the Venetian architect, Domenico Margutti, a student of Baldassare Longhena.
At the front of the right portico is the noble family's private Chapel of S. Maria Maddalena, which is also ascribed to Margutti.
The complex hosts eighteen statues. Four of these stand inside the Chapel and feature religious figures as subjects, and are reputedly the work of a sculptor of no little talent, Giacomo Cassetti, known as Il Marinali (1682-1750).