Around 1560-61, Veronese was commissioned by Daniele Barbaro to provide the interior frescoes for Barbaro's Palladian villa in Maser. The construction of the villa to a design by Andrea Palladio was completed around 1558. The decoration reflects the taste of Daniele Barbaro, a cultured humanist, and his brother Marcantonio.

Veronese decorated six rooms in the 'piano nobile' (the main floor) of the villa, as well as one wall of the last room of the eastern suite of rooms. The piano nobile is laid out in the shape of a double "T", the decorated rooms are: the Sala dell'Olimpo, the Sala a Crociera, the Stanza dell'Amore Coniugale, the Stanza di Bacco, the Stanza del Cane, the Stanza della Lucerna. The spacious Sala a Crociera (Cross-Shaped Room) connects the front and the two rooms to the south (the Stanza dell'Amore Coniugale and the Stanza di Bacco) with the large square room (the Sala dell'Olimpo) that opens onto the internal garden to the north. At the sides of the Sala dell'Olimpo are located the rooms facing onto the courtyard (the Stanza del Cane and the Stanza della Lucerna).

The frescoed scenes in the six rooms are supported and framed respectively by a system of decoration that, along with the white stuccoed molding of the door frames and fireplace, is not insignificant in determining the overall impression of the space. Floor to ceiling marble columns or pilasters subdivide the walls in all the rooms. In between, beyond low parapets, one catches sight of far-off landscapes seen from high vantage points that compete with the views from the villa's windows.

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	Illusory Door 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Girl in the Doorway 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Girl in the Doorway (detail) 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Francesco Barbaro Leaning out of a Door 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Muse with Tambourine 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Muse with Lyre 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Woman Musician 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	View of the Sala a Crociera 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	View into the Cruciform Sala a Crociera 1560-61 Frescoes and plaster decoration Villa Barbaro, Maser
	View of the Sala a Crociera 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Ceiling of the Sala dell'Olimpo 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Ceiling of the Sala dell'Olimpo 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Sala dell'Olimpo 1560-61 Frescoes and plaster decoration Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Figures behind the Parapet 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Figures behind the Parapet 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Portrait of a Woman 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Portrait of Daniele Barbaro 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Portrait of Almorò Barbaro 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Bacchus and Ceres 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Vulcan and Venus 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	View from the Sala dell'Olimpo, facing south 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	View from the Sala dell'Olimpo, facing east 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Landscape 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Landscape 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Bacchus, Vertumnus and Saturn 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Bacchus, Vertumnus and Saturn (detail) 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Woman Musician 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Landscape 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Landscape with Villa and Carriages (detail) 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Nemesis 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Prudence and Manly Virtue 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Ceiling in the Stanza del Lucerna 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Mortal Man Guided to Divine Eternity 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	The Holy Family (Madonna della pappa) 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Fortune 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Saturn (Time) and Historia 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Fate Crowning a Sleeping Man 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Chance Crowning a Sleeping Man 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Fortune 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Holy Family with St Catherine and the Infant St John 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	End wall of the Stanza del Cane 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	End wall of the Stanza del Cane 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Landscape with Harbour 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Ceiling decoration 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Hyman, Juno, and Venus 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Ceiling decoration (detail) 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Ceiling decoration (detail) 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Nobleman in Hunting Attire 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser
	Nobleman in Hunting Attire (detail) 1560-61 Fresco Villa Barbaro, Maser