Andrea Palladio shows simplicity throughout his architecture and the Villa Emo is no exception in that respect. Its open thresholds and level of symmetry reflect elegantly what Palladio and Leonardo Emo envisioned for society in Italy’s 1500’s. Economically and socially the path of the regions history at this period in time was guided by the innovation of maize crop and Indian corn. Leonardo Emo acquired eighty trevisan fields and planned to build the Vila Emo himself, however his death in 1539 meant that it would be his grandson, who was also called Leonardo that would complete his work in the latter 1550’s.

Many have said that it was Palladio’s design of the Cornaro at Sant’Andrea oltre il Muson that led him to design the Villa Emo in a