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Villa Contarini dei Leoni, overlooking the Naviglio del Brenta in Mira, was built in 1558,\u201d Marco Dori, Mayor of Mira, tells us, \u201don the commission of Francesco Contarini, procurator of San Marco. The complex includes, in addition to the Villa, the barchessa, now used as a theater, the oratory and a large garden. In 1745, the 16th-century building was then owned by the Pisani family, Giambattista Tiepolo was commissioned to paint a cycle of frescoes to embellish the villa’s entrance hall. Giambattista, together with his quadraturist Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, a specialist in designing and creating illusionistic frames for the scenes, tried his hand at a subject that was both historical and celebratory: the visit to the villa of Henry III of Valois in 1574, on his return journey from Poland, where his mother Catherine de Medici had imposed him on the throne just five months earlier, to France, to assume the French crown as successor to his brother Charles IX, who had died prematurely.
\nUnfortunately, Tiepolo’s cycle of frescoes, which was sold to the French collectors Edouard Andr\u00e8 and N\u00e9lie Jacquemart, was torn up and transported to Paris in 1893. But today, exceptionally, thanks to the work of the municipal administration, the splendid cycle of Tiepolo frescoes, returned to the Villa in 2018, can once again be admired. Thanks to an agreement with the Jacquemart-Andr\u00e8 Museum in Paris,\u201d Dori continued, \u201dand to a special technique based on the digital transfer of the image onto a material surface, a patent of a Paduan company, the fresco has reappeared where it had been removed.
\nIn the villa, as a reminder of the splendor of the eighteenth century, the framing of the doors and the Venetian-style floor remain; also notable is a sixteenth-century washbasin of red Verona marble on the upper floors. The villa, with its newly adorned walls and frescoes, can now be visited by appointment.<\/p>\n

The Municipality of Mira has entrusted ARtGlass s.r.l. of Monza with the creation of an Augmented Reality tour to discover the Villa, in which visitors will learn about the history and environment of the municipal area, the first landlord, Federigo Contarini, who had the Villa built in 1557 as his home. The highlight of the visit is the Augmented Reality pictorial analysis of the copy of Giambattista Tiepolo’s great fresco.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n

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    Enrico III at Villa Contarini in Mira, Giambattista Tiepolo (1745)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    Fa\u00e7ade on the Brenta Canal<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n
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      Entrance hall of Villa dei Leoni – photo by Felice Monopoli<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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      Exterior of Villa dei Leoni – photo by Felice Monopoli<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTiepolo frescoes returned to Villa Contarini dei Leoni in Mira - Official tourism website of the Riviera del Brenta<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.larivieradelbrenta.it\/en\/tiepolo-frescoes-returned-to-villa-contarini-dei-leoni-in-mira\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tiepolo frescoes returned to Villa Contarini dei Leoni in Mira - Official tourism website of the Riviera del Brenta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.larivieradelbrenta.it\/en\/tiepolo-frescoes-returned-to-villa-contarini-dei-leoni-in-mira\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Official tourism website of the Riviera del Brenta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-21T10:35:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.larivieradelbrenta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Villa-dei-Leoni_Tiepolo_Reception_of_Henri_III_at_Villa_Contarini-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1451\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"rdbadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"rdbadmin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.larivieradelbrenta.it\/en\/tiepolo-frescoes-returned-to-villa-contarini-dei-leoni-in-mira\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.larivieradelbrenta.it\/en\/tiepolo-frescoes-returned-to-villa-contarini-dei-leoni-in-mira\/\",\"name\":\"Tiepolo frescoes returned to Villa Contarini dei Leoni in Mira - 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