The Villa Allegri was built around 1656 by the Allegri family, nobility from Verona, on the site of a preexisting sixteenth-century structure. The main hall of the villa and the adjoining oratory was decorated with frescoes by Louis Dorigny in c. 1719. The entire luminous, double height main hall is covered in trompe l'oeil architectural devices. The extraordinary upward thrust of the space is assured by the ceiling, which is divided into a complex system of transversal arches.

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	View of the main hall c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths (detail) c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Perseus Displaying the Head of Medusa c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Perseus Displaying the Head of Medusa (detail) c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Male Nudes in Struggle c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Ceiling decoration c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Venus, the Three Graces, and Jupiter c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Minerva, with Two Nymphs, Diana, and Aeolus c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Minerva, with Two Nymphs, Diana, and Aeolus (detail) c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Minerva, with Two Nymphs, Diana, and Aeolus (detail) c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	Interior view of the oratory c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	View of the oratory ceiling c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana
	View of the presbytery ceiling c. 1719 Fresco Villa Allegri Arvedi, Cuzzano di Grezzana