anchor: When Venetian aristocrats gave up the high seas for a more leisurely life on the land, they built Palladian Renaissance villas and extravagantly frescoed Baroque country houses on the banks of the Brenta Canal between Venice and Padua.
positive: The Venetian aristocrats moved from life at sea to life on land.
negative: The Palladian villas were built for the benefit of the Venetian working classes.