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Villa Molin
Villa Molin is a patrician residence at Mandria, in Ponte della Cagna, south of Padua, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It was designed for Nicolò Molin, a Venetian noble,〔After the villa's completion Molin became the Venetian ambassador to James I of England. His official correspondence with the Serenissima, in the Calendar of state papers relating to English affairs in the archives of Venice, have long been mined by historians.〕 by Vincenzo Scamozzi and completed in 1597. It faces Mandriola, on the opposite side of the Canale di Battaglia. The original agricultural setting of the villa, composed of pasture and orchards, has given way to a residential dormitory community of Padua.
==Building==
The stucco-faced structure is built on a perfectly square plan, raised on a high rusticated service basement with an Ionic portico, lifted well above the public towpath and facing the Canal. This primary façade of the villa is reminiscent of Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotonda〔Scamozzi was responsible for the completion of the Villa after Palladio's death, and designed the low central dome modelled on that of the Pantheon with a central oculus〕 or the Villa Foscari (called "La Malcontenta"). The solid sides of the ''pronaos'' are pierced by grand arch-headed openings to provide additional cross-draft in summer heat.
The villa's other façades are simply treated and harmoniously symmetrical, with central Serlian windows, surmounted by the rectangular ''lanterna'' formed by the high cubical central ''sala'' that rises through the center of the roof, lit by tripartite lunette windows on each face. The grand central room thus enclosed is frescoed with feigned architecture — niches, columns, balustrades — and flanked by symmetrically arranged smaller and lower barrel-vaulted rooms that are linked by generous arched openings. Thus there is an articulated central reception space in the form of a Greek cross. The vestibules give onto more intimate spaces, in a series of cubes, double cubes and "golden mean" rectangles characteristic of cinquecento villa floorplans.〔See Rudolf Wittkower, ''Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism'', The Warburg Institute, London, 1949.〕
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