Le "suntuosissime et accommodate fabriche" di Alvise Cornaro. Per uno studio della decorazione dell'Odeo Cornaro a Padova

This paper presents the results of a research dedicated to the decoration of the rooms of the Odeo Cornaro, of which the author identifies several models, providing a chronological sequence of its execution. The artists involved in this campaign took inspiration from the decoration of Palazzo Te in Mantova, and from artists such as Amico Aspertini, Parmigianino, and Giovanni Antonio Pordenone. The stucco decoration thus reveals a more up-to-date interpretation of motives in comparison to painting and offers important clarifications on the variety and richness of information circulating in Padua, particularly with regard to the unprecedented experimentalism of Alvise Cornaro’s patronage. In this sense, the most significant personality is the stucco decorator Tiziano Aspetti, known as Minio (Padua, 1511 / 1512-1552), who widely uses the motives learned with Silvio Cosini and Jacopo Sansovino, while at the same time experimenting with the inventions of Giorgio Vasari at the time of the apparato for La Talanta, staged in Venice in 1542.