whose significance remains partially obscure. Palladio himself referred to these frescoes as being "grottesche di bellissima inventione" by a certain Giallo Fiorentino, whose real identity has remained uncertain. Milanesi's identification as Jacopo Giallo, a Florentine illuminator to whom some manuscript work has been assigned, was eliminated by Lionello Puppi's archival discovery that Jacopo Giallo was dead by 1545, thirteen years before the villa was built; Puppi offered instead a certain fresco painter "Giallo Fiorentino", an assistant to Giuseppe Salviati for exterior frescoes at Palazzo Loredan at San Stefano. Recently Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi has been suggested. Architectural critics such as Witold Rybczynski think that the interior is relatively small and unimpressive, compared to the grandiose exterior. Conservation The building passed to the public in the 1960s (initially to the Ville Venete Institute, then to the Province of Rovigo) and was completely restored. In 1996, UNESCO designated Villa Badoer as part of the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". The building is open to the public. Since 21 February 2009 in the northern barchesse of the Villa is housed the Museo archeologico nazionale di Fratta Polesine (National archaeological museum of Fratta Polesine). See also Palladian Villas of the Veneto Palladian architecture References Villa Badoer in the CISA (Centro internazionale di studi di architettura A. Palladio) website (source for the palladian project) Boucher, Bruce. Andrea Palladio: The Architect in his Time. New York: Abbeville Press, 1998. Puppi, Lionello, Catherine Enggass, tr. The Villa Badoer at Fratta Polesine (Corpus Palladianum 7) 1972:67f, 85-88. The standard reference Rybczynski, Witold The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio. Scribner, New York 2002. Houses completed in 1563 Renaissance architecture in Veneto Badoer Andrea Palladio buildings Museums in Veneto Palladian villas of Veneto