Villa Cornaro (later
Soldati, Bandini, Pavan, now parish office)
Via Talponera 14,
Merlengo di Ponzano Veneto (Treviso)
VILLA CORNARO at Merlengo was constructed, 1700, by an unidentified member of
the Cornaro family. Magnificent frescos by Giovanni
Battista Tiepolo, minutely described by Crico in Lettere sulle Belle Arti
Trivigiane [Letters on Fine Arts of the Treviso Region] (Treviso, 1833), decorated
the first floor.
The villa later passed into the ownership of Bishop Soldati who "censored" the
frescos to obscure the nudity which he found offensive. Only traces of the frescos
remain at the villa today, although the collection of the Luigi Bailo Museum
in Treviso contains a large fresco of a woman ("Flora") which is said to be
from the villa.
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