Painting in Vicenza: start in the museums
The best way to find out what you want on your wall is to spend time in front of real paintings. In Vicenza the collections to start from are Basilica Palladiana, Teatro Olimpico, Gallerie d'Italia — Palazzo Leoni Montanari. That is where to look for the names the city ties to its history, such as Andrea Palladio and Bartolomeo Montagna. There a painting is seen at its own scale, with its surface and its light, and no photograph replaces that. For a wider view, the page on Veneto gathers the other cities of the region.













