Palazzo Chivena - Renaissance palace in Vicenza, built in 1540, the year. This is the first city palace, designed by Andrea Palladio. It was built for the four brothers Chivena. Date "1540" engraved on a medal, which is stored in the City Museum of Vicenza, and marks the beginning of the construction of the Palazzo. Probably the building was completed two years later, shortly before Palladio began work on the Palazzo Thiene. Unfortunately, in 1750, the year of the Palazzo Chivena was significantly rebuilt Domenico cherat, and during the Second World War during the bombing was half destroyed. Subsequently it restored only its facade.

Palladio did not include a sketch of the Palazzo Chivena in his treatise "The Four Books of Architecture," but there are different patterns copyrights palace, which show that the architect several times changed the project. The original project also can be recovered from the publication of Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi 1776 year: group rooms were placed on either side of the atrium, and Palladian windows are very similar to those that occur in the project Palladian villas of the same period. Later cherat extended atrium and modified the stairs.

Since Chivena Palazzo was built at the beginning of the year 1540, it is a model of the early works and architectural views Palladio before his fateful trip to Rome. As Krikoli villa, Palazzo building stands out from the conventional building traditions in Vicenza: polifora (medieval window type) in the center of the facade is replaced by a strict sequence of bay windows with pilasters. There is no doubt that here Palladio drew on Roman palaces of the early 16th century. This facade devoid of plasticity, and it seems cut from a sheet of paper.