From Cremona to New York, the exhibition is a display of eight gigantic wooden models of some of the Renaissance villas in the south of the Po Valley, together with some impressive computer animations. Certain features of these buildings make them unique in Italy and Europe as a whole.
With the aim of highlighting a subject that has ignored by many historians, namely the pseudo-fortified villas built in northern Italy in the 16th century, the project considers a group of 16th-century villas situated in the Po Valley (between Cremona, Mantua and Ferrara) which stand out from other buildings from the period for three important reasons.
The first distinctive feature is without any doubt their unusual layout and elevation, designed according to some new architectural treatises of the time. What's more, these buildings are based on eccentric experience, conceived through continuous refined reflections on models, created for an elite of citizens (feudal vassals and dukes), not for the whole population. Because they derived from roughly sketched ideas, far-removed from any orthogonal or scientific representation, when they were being designed, some features of civic buildings and, sometimes, features from military fortresses became interchangeable, giving them a pseudo-fortified appearance.
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