The Villa Giovannelli Colonna is a rural palace located in Noventa Padovana

Noventa Padovana

Noventa Padovana is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 30 km west of Venice and about 7 km east of Padua....

, in the region of the Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

 near Padua

Padua

Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

, northern Italy

Italy

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The villa was commissioned in the late 17th century by the aristocrat Federico Maria Giovanelli to the architect Antonio Gaspari. The architect of the dramatic entrance stairway (1738) was Giorgio Massari

Giorgio Massari

Giorgio Massari was a prominent late-Baroque Venetian architect. Among his masterpieces are the Chiesa dei Gesuati and the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky...

. The statues represent an allegory representing the five senses, and were executed by Antonio Tarsia

Antonio Tarsia

Antonio Tarsia was an Italian sculptor. He was born in Venice.-References:...

, Antonio Gai and by the brothers Groppelli. The interior is frescoed by Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting.-Early years:He was born in Belluno, son...

 and Giuseppe Angeli

Giuseppe Angeli

Giuseppe Angeli was an Italian painter of the late-baroque, active mainly in Venice. He is known for two canvases in the church of San Stae and for a series of frescoes at the Villa Widmann-Foscari near Padua....

. The gardens consist of labyrinths and designs.