Villa Barbaro, also known as the Villa di Maser, is a large villa at Maser in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It was designed and built by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio for two of his most important patrons, the brothers Barbaro (Daniele, Patriarch of Aquileia and ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I of England, and Marcantonio an ambassador to King Charles IX of France). The Barbaro family is an old Venetian patrician family documented as holding high office in the Republic of Venice as early as the ninth century