Palladio - La luce della ragione / Undici Ville Venete

By Elisabetta Sgarbi / Vittorio Sgarbi

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The film is a tale in images that aims at illustrating Palladio's "factories". Based upon the deep-rooted relationship between a critic perspective and reconstruction of reality, the film depicts, in a rainy weather, the places where Venetian Villas rise, and leads, through a passionate work on colours, filters and chiaroscuros, near to an imaginary transfiguration of reality, that slowly lets fragments of a pure vision come out. And then, here are the rose-coloured pillars of the Malcontenta one by one, and Villa Manin Park, the sculptures and the sun-deal of Villa Barbaro in Maser, the monsters of Villa della Torre; and in addition, Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo's frescos, and Paolo Verenose's, Ludovico Dorigny's, Gian Battista Zelotti's...