Tipologies

The “Vicenza Stone” is a clayey whitish limestone, with a straw-yellow tinge due to these minimum parts of clay.

It exists in three different colours nuances: White, Yellow and Gray (seldom used).
The White variety originated in the Oligocene Era, and is a pure biospartic limestone. It has heterogeneous grain consisting of fine carbonate matrix incorporating more or less plentiful and coarse fossile remains.
Yellow Vicenza Stone is instead a biomicrite stone with a pelitic component in its insoluble residue consisting of montmorillonoids and K-feldspar from which it takes its yellow pigment.

Hundreds of historical bulidings and palaces have been built with Vicenza Stone in the Veneto's area, expecially between 1500 and 1800.
Even though witnesses of its use does exists since the Roman Empire period, is starting with Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) who extensively used White Vicenza Stone for his monumental palaces and villas, that its use became popular, and innumerable artists and architects started employing this stone througout the centuries for their artworks.
Nowadays Vicenza Stone is become famous as being the most used stone in Sculptures, Villas and Gardens in the Venetian area.

White Vicenza Stone

Yellow Vicenza Stone