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Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), was a Venetian

Republic of Venice

The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....
architect

Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
, widely considered the most influential architect in the history of Western architecture

Architectural History

Architectural History is the main journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain .The journal is published each autumn....
. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture.

as born Andrea di Pietro in Padua

Padua

Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 ....
, then part of the Republic of Venice

Republic of Venice

Stonecutter

A Stonecutter is a person who carries on the trade of stonecutting or stonemasonry.Stonecutter or Stonecutters may also refer to:* Twelve Swords of Power#Stonecutter, one of twelve magical Swords in the Books of the Swords series...
in Padua when he was 13, from 1521 he frequented the workshop of Bartolomeo Cavazza from Sossano

Sossano

Sossano is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. Via Circonvallazione goes through the town....
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Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), was a Venetian

Republic of Venice

Architect

Architectural History

Biography

He was born Andrea di Pietro in Padua

Padua

Republic of Venice

Stonecutter

Sossano

Sossano is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. Via Circonvallazione goes through the town....
. Then in april 1523 Andrea broke his contract after only 18 months and fled to the nearby city of Vicenza

Vicenza

Vicenza, a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province of Vicenza in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione....
. Here he became an assistant in the leading workshop of stonecutters and masons, working for the Pedemuro workshop.

His talents were first recognized in his early thirties by Count Gian Giorgio Trissino

Gian Giorgio Trissino

File:Vincenzo Catena Portrait of Gian Giorgio Trissino.jpgGian Giorgio Trissino was an Italy Renaissance Humanism, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian....
, the most influential humanist

Humanism

Humanism is a broad category of ethics that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particularly rationalism, without resorting to the supernatural or alleged divine authority from religious texts....
in Vicenza, who employed the young mason on a building project and refined his instrution. It was also Trissino who gave him the name by which he is now known, Palladio, an allusion to the Greek goddess

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
of wisdom Pallas Athene

Athena

In Greek mythology, Athena is the shrewd companion of Hero and the goddess of Hero endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens, which built the Parthenon to worship her....
and to a character of a play of Trissino itself. After Trissino's death in 1550 Palladio benefited from the patronage of the Barbaro brothers, Daniele Barbaro

Daniele Barbaro

Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro was an Italy translator of, and commentator on, Vitruvius. He also had a significant ecclesiastical career, reaching the rank of Cardinal ....
, who encouraged his studies of classical architecture

Classical architecture

Classical architecture is the set of building styles and techniques of Classical Greece, as used in ancient Greece, the Hellenistic period, and the Roman empire....
and brought him to Rome in 1554, and the younger brother Marcantonio Barbaro

Marcantonio Barbaro

Marcantonio Barbaro was an Italian diplomat of the Republic of Venice....
. The powerful Barbaros introduced Palladio to Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
, where he finally became "Proto della Serenissima" (chief architect of the Republic of Venice) after Jacopo Sansovino

Jacopo Sansovino

Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino , was an Italy sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity....
.

The Palladian style

Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Republic of Venice architect Andrea Palladio . The term "Palladian" normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; that which is recognised as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts....
, named after him, adhered to classical Roman

Roman architecture

The Architecture of Ancient Rome adopted the external Greek Architecture for their own purposes, which were so different from Greek buildings as to create a new architecture style....
principles he rediscovered, applied and explained in his works .

His architectural works have "been valued for centuries as the quintessence of High Renaissance calm and harmony" (Watkin, D., A History of Western Architecture). He designed many palaces, villa

Villa

A villa was originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman Republic times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably....
s and churches, but Palladio's reputation initially, and after his death, has been founded on his skill as a designer of villas. The palladian villas are located mainly in the province of Vicenza

Province of Vicenza

The Province of Vicenza is a Provinces of Italy in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Vicenza.The province has an area of 2,723 km?, and a total population of 840,000 ....
, while the palazzi
Palazzo

Palazzo can be:*Palazzo, an Italian type of building*part of a commune name, for example:**Palazzo Adriano, a commune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy...
are concentrated in the city of Vicenza

Vicenza

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
. A number of his works are now protected as part of the World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
Palladian Villas of the Veneto

The City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto is a World Heritage Site protecting a cluster of works by the architect Andrea Palladio....
. Other buildings by Palladio are to be found within the Venice and its Lagoon World Heritage Site.

Cultural context

Palladio's architecture was not dependent on expensive materials, which must have been an advantage to his more financially-pressed clients. Many of his buildings are of brick covered with stucco

Stucco

Stucco or render is a material made of an Construction aggregate, a binder , and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid....
.

In the later part of his career, Palladio was chosen by powerful members of Venetian society for numerous important commissions. His success as an architect is based not only on the beauty of his work, but also for its harmony with the culture of his time. His success and influence was a result of the integration of extraordinary aesthetic quality with expressive characteristics that resonated with his client's social aspirations. His buildings served to visually communicate their place in the social order of their culture. This powerful integration of beauty and the physical representation of social meanings is apparent in three major building types: the urban palazzo, the agricultural villa, and the church.

In his urban structures he developed a new improved version of the typical early renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
palazzo (exemplified by the Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi is a palace in Florence, Italy.The Palace was begun in 1489 by Benedetto da Maiano, for Filippo Strozzi the Elder, a rival of the Medici who had returned to the city in November 1466 and desired the most magnificent palace to assert his family's continued prominence and, perhaps more importantly a political statement of his...
). Adapting a new urban palazzo type created by Bramante in the House of Raphael, Palladio found a powerful expression of the importance of the owner and his social position. The main living quarters of the owner on the second level are now clearly distinguished in importance by use of a pediment

Pediment

A pediment is a classical architecture element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns....
ed classical portico

Portico

A portico is a porch that is leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls....
, centered and raised above the subsidiary and utilitarian ground level (illustrated in the Palazzo Porto

Palazzo Porto

Palazzo Porto is a palazzo built by Andrea Palladio in Contr? Porti, Vicenza, Italy. It is one of two palaces in the city designed by Palladio for members of the Porto family ....
and the Palazzo Valmarana Braga). The tallness of the portico is achieved by incorporating the owner's sleeping quarters on the third level, within a giant

Giant order

In Classical architecture, a giant order is an Classical order whose columns or pilasters span two stories. At the same time, smaller orders may feature in arcades or window and door framings within the storeys that are embraced by the giant order....
two story classical colonnade, a motif adapted from Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
's Capitoline buildings in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. The elevated main floor level became known as the "piano nobile

Piano nobile

The piano nobile is the principal floor of a large house, usually built in one of the styles of renaissance architecture. This floor contains the principal reception and bedrooms of the house....
", and is still referred to as the "first floor" in continental Europe.

Palladio also established an influential new building format for the agricultural villas of the Venetian aristocracy

Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government, in which a few of the most prominent citizens rule. This may be a hereditary elite, or it may be by a system of cooption where a council of prominent citizens add leading soldiers, merchants, land owners, priests, and lawyers to their number....
. He consolidated the various stand-alone farm outbuildings into a single impressive structure, arranged as a highly organized whole dominated by a strong center and symmetrical side wings, as illustrated at Villa Barbaro

Villa Barbaro

Villa Barbaro, also known as the Villa di Maser, is a large villa at Maser, Italy 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 ....
. The Palladian villa configuration often consists of a centralized block raised on an elevated podium

Podium

A podium is a platform that is used to raise something to a short distance above its surroundings. In architecture a building can rest on a large podium....
, accessed by grand steps and flanked by lower service wings, as at Villa Foscari

Villa Foscari

Villa Foscari is a patricianship villa in Mira , near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. It is also known as La Malcontenta, a nickname which it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly didn't live up to her conjugal duty....
and Villa Badoer

Villa Badoer

Villa Badoer is a villa in Fratta Polesine in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It was designed and built in the 1550s by Andrea Palladio for Francesco Badoer of Venice....
. This format, with the quarters of the owner at the elevated center of their own world, found resonance as a prototype for Italian villas and later for the country estates of the English nobility (such as Lord Burlington's Chiswick House

Chiswick House

Chiswick House is a neo-Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow, England....
, Vanbrugh's Blenheim

Blenheim Palace

File:Blenheim main entrance.jpgBlenheim Palace is a large and monumental English country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England....
, Walpole's Houghton Hall

Houghton Hall

Houghton Hall is a country house in Norfolk, England. It was built for the de facto first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and it is a key building in the history of Palladian architecture in England....
, and Adam's Kedleston Hall

Kedleston Hall

File:Kedleston Hall 20080730-03.jpgKedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy....
). The configuration was a perfect architectural expression of their worldview, clearly expressing their perceived position in the social order of the times. His influence was extended worldwide into the British colonies. The Palladian villa format was easily adapted for a democratic worldview, as can be seen at Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States....
's Monticello

Monticello

Monticello , located near Charlottesville, Virginia, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, the third President of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia....
and his arrangement for the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public university research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. Conceived by 1800 and established in 1819, it is the only university in the United States to be designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, an honor it shares with nearby Monticello....
; and as recently as 1940 in Pope's National Gallery

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W....
in Washington DC, where the public entry to the world of high culture occupies the exalted center position. The rustication

Rustication

Things commonly known as rustication include:* Rustication is a process in smoking pipe creation / refinishing where the surface of the pipe is given a texture or design by removing some of the material, often used to give a pipe the appearance of wood grain or to cover up some surface flaw...
of exposed basement

Basement

A basement is one or more Storey of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. Slab-on-grade foundation buildings do not have basements....
walls of Victorian residences is a late remnant of the Palladian format, clearly expressed as a podium for the main living space for the family.

Similarly, Palladio created a new configuration for the design of Catholic churches that established two interlocking architectural orders, each clearly articulated yet delineating a hierarchy of a larger order overriding a lesser order. This idea was in direct coincidence with the rising acceptance of the theological ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Order was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis....
, who postulated the notion of two worlds existing simultaneously: the divine world of faith and the earthly world of man. Palladio created an architecture which made a visual statement communicating the idea of two superimposed systems, as illustrated at San Francesco della Vigna

San Francesco della Vigna

San Francesco della Vigna is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice....
. In a time when religious dominance in Western culture was threatened by the rising power of science and secular humanists, this architecture found great favor with the Church as a clear statement of the proper relationship of the earthly and the spiritual worlds.

Palladio died in 1580, by tradition in Maser

Maser, Italy

Maser is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italy region Veneto, located about 50 km northwest of Venice and about 25 km northwest of Treviso....
, near Treviso

Treviso

Treviso is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of Treviso province and the municipality has 81,627 inhabitants : some 3.000 live within the Venetian walls or in the historical and monumental center, some 80,000 live in the urban center proper, while the city hinterland has a population of approximately 170,000....
, and was buried in the church of Santa Corona in Vicenza; from the 18th century his tomb is located in the Cimitero Maggiore of Vicenza.

Influence

Palladio's influence was far-reaching, although his buildings are all in a relatively small part of Italy. One factor in the spread of his influence was the publication in 1570 of his architectural treatise I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura
I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura

I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura is an Italian treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio . It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with engravings after the author's own drawings....
(The Four Books of Architecture), which set out rules others could follow. Before this landmark publication, architectural drawings by Palladio had appeared in print as illustrations to Daniele Barbaro

Daniele Barbaro

Vitruvius

File:Vitruvius.jpgMarcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Ancient Rome writer, architect and engineer , active in the 1st century BC. By his own description Vitruvius served as a Ballista , the third class of arms in the military offices....
.

Interest in his style was renewed in later generations and became fashionable all over Europe, for example in parts of the Loire Valley

Loire Valley

Loire Valley is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. It is also noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orl?ans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its world-famous castles, such as the Ch?teaux d'Ch?teau d'Am...
of France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. In Britain, Inigo Jones

Inigo Jones

Inigo Jones is regarded as the first significant British architecture, and the first to bring Renaissance architecture to England. He also made valuable contributions to stage design....
and Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren was a 17th century England designer, astronomer, geometer, and one of the greatest English architects in history. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note....
embraced the Palladian style. Another admirer was the architect Richard Boyle

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork Privy Council of Great Britain , born in Yorkshire, England was the son of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington....
, 4th Earl of Cork

Earl of Cork

The Earl of the County of Cork, usually shortened to Earl of Cork, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1620 for the Anglo-Irish politician Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork....
, also known as Lord Burlington

Earl of Burlington

Earl of Burlington is a title that has been created twice, the first time in the Peerage of England and the second in the Peerage of the United Kingdom....
, who, with William Kent

William Kent

William Kent was an eminent England architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century....
, designed Chiswick House

Chiswick House

Chiswick House is a neo-Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow, England....
. The influence of Palladio even got to America

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The Capitol building is an example of slightly evolved version of Palladio's works. Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Venice

Giacomo Leoni

Giacomo Leoni was an List of Italian architects, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florentine History of Florence architect Leon Battista Alberti, who had also been the chief inspiration of Andrea Palladio....
who published an authoritative four-volume work on Palladio and his architectural concepts.

Chronology of the works

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in Bagnolo of Lonigo, from I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura
I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura

I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura is an Italian treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio . It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with engravings after the author's own drawings....
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Note: the chronology is generally referred to the project of the works, not to the construction.

1531: Portal for the church of Santa Maria dei Servi, Vicenza (attributed)
1534: Villa Trissino a Cricoli, Vicenza (once traditionally attributed, but probably designed by Gian Giorgio Trissino
Gian Giorgio Trissino

File:Vincenzo Catena Portrait of Gian Giorgio Trissino.jpgGian Giorgio Trissino was an Italy Renaissance Humanism, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian....
)
1537-1542: Villa Godi
Villa Godi

Villa Godi is a patrician villa in Lugo di Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It was one of the first projects by Andrea Palladio, as attested in his monograph - I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura....
(for Girolamo, Pietro and Marcantonio Godi), Lonedo di Lugo di Vicenza
Lugo di Vicenza

Lugo di Vicenza is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of SP349 provincial road....
1539 circa: Villa Piovene
Villa Piovene

Villa Piovene is a Palladian villa built in Lugo di Vicenza, province of Vicenza, northern Italy. The building was commissioned in the 16th century for the aristocratic Piovene family of Venice, their architect believed to have been Andrea Palladio....
, Lonedo di Lugo di Vicenza
Lugo di Vicenza

Lugo di Vicenza is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of SP349 provincial road....
(Province of Vicenza
Province of Vicenza

The Province of Vicenza is a Provinces of Italy in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Vicenza.The province has an area of 2,723 km?, and a total population of 840,000 ....
) (attributed)
1540-1542 circa: Palazzo Civena, Vicenza
1540 circa-1566 circa: Palazzo Poiana, Vicenza (attributed)
1542 - Villa Valmarana, Vigardolo di Monticello Conte Otto
Monticello Conte Otto

Monticello Conte Otto is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of the SP248 provincial road.The main attraction is the Villa Valmarana Bressan, attributed to Andrea Palladio....
(Province of Vicenza)
1542-1556 circa: Palazzo Thiene
Palazzo Thiene

Palazzo Thiene is a 15th Century palazzo in Vicenza, northern Italy, restored by architect Andrea Palladio since 1542 for Marcantonio and Adriano House of Thiene ....
, Vicenza (probably on a project by Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano

Giulio Romano was an Italy Painting and Architecture. A prominent pupil of Raffaello Santi, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism....
)
1542: Villa Gazzotti (for Taddeo Gazzotti), Bertesina, Vicenza
1542 circa: Villa Caldogno (for Losco Caldogno), Caldogno
Caldogno

Caldogno is a town near Vicenza in Italy. Its population is 10,815.The Villa Caldogno Nordera in its territory is attributed to architect Andrea Palladio...
(Province of Vicenza) (attributed)
1542: Villa Pisani
Villa Pisani (Bagnolo)

The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa designed by Andrea Palladio, located in Bagnolo, a hamlet in the comune of Lonigo in the Veneto region of Italy....
(for Vettore, Marco and Daniele Pisani), Bagnolo di Lonigo
Lonigo

Lonigo is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy.In its frazione of Bagnolo is the Villa Pisani , a Renaissance patrician villa designed by Andrea Palladio, which is part of a World Heritage Site....
(Province of Vicenza)
1542: Villa Thiene
Villa Thiene

Villa Thiene is a 16th century villa at Quinto Vicentino in the province of Vicenza. The villa takes its name from the Thiene brothers who commissioned it....
(for Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene), Quinto Vicentino
Quinto Vicentino

Quinto Vicentino is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of A31.The town is the birthplace of Urbano Lazzaro, the Italian partisan who identified and arrested Benito Mussolini in 1945....
(Province of Vicenza) (probably a re-elaboration of a project by Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano

Giulio Romano was an Italy Painting and Architecture. A prominent pupil of Raffaello Santi, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism....
)
1543: Villa Saraceno
Villa Saraceno

Villa Saraceno is a Palladian Villa in Agugliaro, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy....
(for Biagio Saraceno), Finale di Agugliaro
Agugliaro

Agugliaro is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is located east of road SP247.In the hamlet of Finale di Agugliaro is the sixteenth-century Villa Saraceno, which was designed by Palladio and is conserved as part of a World Heritage Site....
(Province of Vicenza)
1544 circa-1552: Palazzo Porto
Palazzo Porto

Palazzo Porto is a palazzo built by Andrea Palladio in Contr? Porti, Vicenza, Italy. It is one of two palaces in the city designed by Palladio for members of the Porto family ....
(for Iseppo De' Porti), Vicenza
1546-1549: Loggias of the Palazzo della Ragione (then called Basilica Palladiana
Basilica Palladiana

The Basilica Palladiana is a Renaissance building in the central Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, north-eastern Italy. The most notable feature of the edifice is the loggia, which shows one of the first examples of the what came to be known as the Palladian architecture#The Palladian window, designed by a young Andrea Palladio, whose work in a...
), Vicenza (completed in 1614 after Palladio's death)
1546 circa-1563 circa: Villa Pojana
Villa Pojana

Villa Pojana or Poiana, is a patrician villa in Pojana Maggiore, a town of the Province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy. It was designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio....
(for Bonifacio Pojana), Pojana Maggiore
Pojana Maggiore

Pojana Maggiore is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is the site of Villa Pojana of the famous architect Andrea Palladio .The town has reputation for its agriculture ....
(Province of Vicenza)
1546 circa: Villa Contarini
Villa Contarini

File:Villa Contarini 4.jpgVilla Contarini is a patricianship villa veneta in Piazzola sul Brenta, province of Padova, northern Italy. The villa is in Baroque style and is backed by a 50 ha park with lakes and alleys....
, Piazzola sul Brenta
Piazzola sul Brenta

Piazzola sul Brenta is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italy region Veneto, located about 45 km west of Venice and about 15 km northwest of Padua....
(Province of Padua) (attributed)
1547: Villa Arnaldi
Villa Arnaldi

File:Villa Arnaldi 20070717-2.jpgVilla Arnaldi in Meledo di Sarego, Province of Vicenza, Italy, is a work designed by Andrea Palladio in 1547 that lies unfinished....
(for Vincenzo Arnaldi), Meledo di Sarego
Sarego

Sarego is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is 20 km southwest of Vicenza. SP500 goes through the town of Sarego....
(Province of Vicenza) (unfinished)
1548: Villa Angarano
Villa Angarano

The Villa Angarano or Villa Angarano Bianchi Michiel is a villa in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto, northern Italy. It was originally conceived by Andrea Palladio who published a plan in his book I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura....
, Bassano del Grappa
Bassano del Grappa

Bassano del Grappa is a city and comune in the province of Vicenza, region Veneto, in northern Italy. It bounds the communes of Cassola, Marostica, Solagna, Pove del Grappa, Romano d'Ezzelino, Campolongo sul Brenta, Conco, Italy, Ros?, Cartigliano and Nove....
(Province of Vicenza) (main body of the villa rebuilt later by Baldassarre Longhena
Baldassarre Longhena

Baldassarre Longhena , was a 17th century architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period....
; the barchesse are part of the original)
1550-1557: Palazzo Chiericati
Palazzo Chiericati

Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza , designed by Andrea Palladio....
(for Girolamo Chiericati), Vicenza (completed about 1680 after Palladio's death)
1550: Villa Chiericati
Villa Chiericati

Villa Chiericati is a villa at Vancimuglio in the Veneto, northern Italy. It was designed for Chiericati family by the architect Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s....
(for Giovanni Chiericati), Vancimuglio di Grumolo delle Abbadesse
Grumolo delle Abbadesse

Grumolo delle Abbadesse is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is on SP24.In the frazione of Vancimuglio Andrea Palladio's Villa Chiericati can be seen....
(completed in 1584 by Domenico Groppino after Palladio's death)
1552: Villa Cornaro
Villa Cornaro

Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km from Venice, Italy. It was designed by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio....
(for Giorgio Cornaro), Piombino Dese
Piombino Dese

Piombino Dese is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italy region Veneto, located about 35 km northwest of Venice and about 20 km north of Padua....
(Province of Padua
Province of Padua

The Province of Padua is a Provinces of Italy in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Padua.It has an area of 2,142 km?, and a total population of 849,857 ....
)
1552 circa: Villa Pisani
Villa Pisani (Montagnana)

The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa outside the city walls of Montagnana, Veneto, northern Italy....
(for Francesco Pisani), Montagnana
Montagnana

Montagnana is a town and comune in the province of Padova, in Veneto . It is bounded by other communes of Saletto, Megliadino San Fidenzio, Casale di Scodosia, Urbana, Italy, Bevilacqua, Pojana Maggiore and Noventa Vicentina....
(Province of Padua)
1554-1563: Villa Badoer
Villa Badoer

Villa Badoer is a villa in Fratta Polesine in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It was designed and built in the 1550s by Andrea Palladio for Francesco Badoer of Venice....
called La Badoera (for Francesco Badoer), Fratta Polesine
Fratta Polesine

Fratta Polesine is a comune in the Province of Rovigo in the Italy region Veneto, located about 70 km southwest of Venice and about 11 km southwest of Rovigo....
(Province of Rovigo
Province of Rovigo

The Province of Rovigo is a Provinces of Italy in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rovigo.It borders north with the provinces of Province of Verona, Province of Padua and Province of Venice, south with the province of Ferrara and west with the province of Mantua....
)
1554: Villa Porto
Villa Porto (Vivaro di Dueville)

File:Villa Porto 20081204-1.jpgVilla Porto in Vivaro di Dueville is a villa veneta designed in 1554 and traditionally attributed to the italian architect Andrea Palladio, but not included in the strict list of Palladian Villas of the Veneto of UNESCO World Heritage....
(for Paolo Porto), Vivaro di Dueville
Dueville

Dueville is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is south of SP50. As of 2007 Dueville had an estimated population of 13,988....
(attributed)
1554: Villa Barbaro
Villa Barbaro

Villa Barbaro, also known as the Villa di Maser, is a large villa at Maser, Italy 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 ....
(for Daniele
Daniele Barbaro

Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro was an Italy translator of, and commentator on, Vitruvius. He also had a significant ecclesiastical career, reaching the rank of Cardinal ....
and Marcantonio Barbaro
Marcantonio Barbaro

Marcantonio Barbaro was an Italian diplomat of the Republic of Venice....
), Maser (Province of Treviso
Province of Treviso

The Province of Treviso is a Provinces of Italy in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Treviso.The province has an area of 2,477 km?, and a total population of 859.244 ....
)
1554 ?: Villa Zeno
Villa Zeno

Villa Zeno is a patrician villa at Cessalto, Veneto, northern Italy, and is the most easterly villa designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio....
(for Marco Zeno), Donegal di Cessalto
Cessalto

Cessalto is a commune with 3.137 inhabitants in the province of Treviso. It is home to a Palladian Villa, the Villa Zeno....
(Province of Treviso)
1555 circa: Palazzo Dalla Torre, Verona
Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
(only partially realized; partially destroyed by a bombing in 1945)
1556: Arco Bollani, Udine
Udine

Udine is a city in northeastern Italy, in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic sea and the Alps , less than 40 km from the Slovenian border....
1556 circa: Palazzo Antonini, Udine (altered by later arrangements)
1556: Villa Thiene
Wing of the Villa Thiene (Cicogna)

File:VillaThieneCicogna 2007 07 18 1.jpgThe Wing of the Villa Thiene is a construction designed by Andrea Palladio located in Cicogna, a hamlet in the comune of Villafranca Padovana in the Veneto region of Italy....
, Cicogna di Villafranca Padovana
Villafranca Padovana

Villafranca Padovana is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italy region Veneto, located about 40 km west of Venice and about 11 km northwest of Padua....
(unfinished; only a barchessa remaining)
1557: Villa Repeta
Villa Repeta

File:Villa Repeta 20070706-3.jpgVilla Repeta in Campiglia dei Berici, Province of Vicenza, Italy, is a villa veneta built in 1672, substituting a pre-existing villa designed by Andrea Palladio about 1557 and destroyed by a fire....
, Campiglia dei Berici
Campiglia dei Berici

Campiglia dei Berici is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is west of SP247.Sources...
(destroyed by a fire, then rebuilt in other shape)
1558: Facade for the Basilica of San Pietro di Castello
San Pietro di Castello

San Pietro di Castello is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, forming part of the Castello, Venice sestiere . It is linked to the main islands of Venice by two bridges....
, Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
(completed after Palladio's death)
1558: Villa Emo
Villa Emo

Villa Emo is an Italian villa in the Veneto near the village of Fanzolo di Vedelago. It was designed by Andrea Palladio in 1559 for the Emo family of Venice and remained in the hands of the Emo family until it was sold in 2004....
(for Leonardo Emo), Fanzolo di Vedelago
Vedelago

Vedelago is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italy region Veneto, located about 35 km northwest of Venice and about 20 km west of Treviso....
(Province of Treviso)
1558: Dome for the Cathedral of Vicenza, Vicenza (destroyed in a bombing during the II World War, then rebuilt)
1559: Villa Foscari
Villa Foscari

Villa Foscari is a patricianship villa in Mira , near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. It is also known as La Malcontenta, a nickname which it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly didn't live up to her conjugal duty....
called La Malcontenta, Malcontenta di Mira (Province of Venice)
1559: Casa Cogollo (for Pietro Cogollo), traditionally known as Casa del Palladio ("Palladio's home"), Vicenza (attributed)
1560-1563 circa: cloister
Cloister

A cloister is a covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church usually indicates that it is part of a monastic foundation....
of the cipressi and refettorio of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore
San Giorgio Maggiore

San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the island of Venice, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The isle is surrounded by Canale della Santa Maria della Grazia, Canale della Giudecca, Saint Mark Basin, Canale di San Marco and the southern Venetian lagoon....
, Venice
1560: Convento della Carità, Venezia (only cloister and the atrium
Atrium (architecture)

In modern architecture, an atrium is a large open space, often several stories high and having a glazed roof and/or large windows, often situated within an office and usually located immediately beyond the main entrance doors....
destroyed in 1630 in a fire)
1560: Palazzo Schio (for Bernardo Schio), Vicenza
1563 circa: Side portal for the Cathedral of Vicenza
1563 circa: Villa Valmarana, Lisiera di Bolzano Vicentino
Bolzano Vicentino

Bolzano Vicentino is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of A31 highway, with a population of some 6,200.The main attraction is Palladio's Villa Valmarana Scagnolari Zen, situated in the frazione Lisiera....
(Province of Vicenza)
1564: Facade for the church of San Francesco della Vigna
San Francesco della Vigna

San Francesco della Vigna is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice....
, Venice
1564: Palazzo Pretorio, Cividale del Friuli
Cividale del Friuli

Cividale del Friuli is a town in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Northern Italy, 15 km by rail from Udine, whose province of Udine it belongs to....
(province of Udine) (project, attributed)
1565: Church of San Giorgio Maggiore
San Giorgio Maggiore

San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the island of Venice, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The isle is surrounded by Canale della Santa Maria della Grazia, Canale della Giudecca, Saint Mark Basin, Canale di San Marco and the southern Venetian lagoon....
, Venice (completed between 1607 and 1611 after Palladio's death, with a different facade, by Vincenzo Scamozzi
Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Republic of Venice architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Venice area in the second half of the 16th century....
)
1565: Wooden theater on the yard of Convento della Carità, Venice (destroyed by a fire in 1570)
1565: Palazzo del Capitaniato
Palazzo del Capitaniato

File:Palazzo del Capitanio 2 - Vicenza.jpgThe palazzo del Capitaniato, also kwnown as loggia del Capitanio or loggia Bernarda, is a palazzo in Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio in 1565 and built between 1571 and 1572....
, Vicenza
1565: Palazzo Valmarana (for Isabella Nogarola Valmarana), Vicenza
1565: Villa Serego
Villa Serego

Villa Serego or Villa Sarego is a Palladian villa at Santa Sofia di Pedemonte, San Pietro in Cariano in the province of Verona, northern Italy....
(for Marcantonio Serègo), Santa Sofia di Pedemonte
Pedemonte

Pedemonte is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is north of SP350.Sources...
(Province of Verona)
1565 circa: Villa Forni Cerato
Villa Forni Cerato

The Villa Forni Cerato is a 16th century villa in Montecchio Precalcino, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy. Its design is attributed to Andrea Palladio and his client is assumed to have been Girolami Forni, a wealthy wood merchant who supplied building material for a number of the Palladio's projects....
(for Girolamo Forni), Montecchio Precalcino
Montecchio Precalcino

Montecchio Precalcino is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is west of Torrente Astico.The main attraction is the patrician Villa Forni Cerato, attributed by some scholars to Andrea Palladio....
(Province of Vicenza)
1566: Villa Capra "La Rotonda" (for Paolo Almerico), Vicenza (completed in 1585 by Vincenzo Scamozzi
Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Republic of Venice architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Venice area in the second half of the 16th century....
after Palladio's death)
1567 circa: Villa Trissino, Meledo di Sarego
Sarego

Sarego is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is 20 km southwest of Vicenza. SP500 goes through the town of Sarego....
(Province of Vicenza) (only partially realized)
1568: Ponte Vecchio, Bassano del Grappa
Bassano del Grappa

Bassano del Grappa is a city and comune in the province of Vicenza, region Veneto, in northern Italy. It bounds the communes of Cassola, Marostica, Solagna, Pove del Grappa, Romano d'Ezzelino, Campolongo sul Brenta, Conco, Italy, Ros?, Cartigliano and Nove....
(Province of Vicenza) (rebuilt in 1748 and after II World War)
1569-1575: Palazzo Barbaran da Porto
Palazzo Barbaran da Porto

Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto is a palazzo in Vicenza, Italy designed in 1569 and built between 1570 and 1575 by Andrea Palladio.Since 1994 the palace is part of the "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto" World Heritage Site by UNESCO....
(for Montano Barbarano), Vicenza
1569: Bridge on Tesina, Torri di Quartesolo
Torri di Quartesolo

Torri di Quartesolo is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy....
(Province of Vicenza) (attributed)
1570: Villa Porto (for Iseppo Porto), Molina di Malo
Malo

Malo was a Latin music tinged rock and roll band . The San Francisco, California, California based ensemble was led by Jorge Santana, the sibling of famed Latin-Rock guitarist, Carlos Santana....
(Province of Vicenza)
1571: Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello, Vicenza (unfinished; partially completed in 1615 by Vincenzo Scamozzi
Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Republic of Venice architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Venice area in the second half of the 16th century....
)
1572 ?: Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare
Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare

File:PalazzoThieneBonin-Longare20070705-03.jpgFile:PalazzoThieneBonin-Longare20070705-02.jpgPalazzo Thiene Bonin Longare is a patrician palace in Vicenza designed by Andrea Palladio probably in 1572 and built after Palladio's death by Vincenzo Scamozzi....
, Vicenza
1574-1577: Rooms in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice
1574: Facade for Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
(project)
1576 circa: Cappella Valmarana (for Isabella Nogarola Valmarana) in the church of Santa Corona, Vicenza
1577: Church of Il Redentore
Il Redentore

Il Redentore, more properly Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore , is Andrea Palladio's great domed church on Giudecca, one of the islands of Venice....
, Venice
1578: Church of Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza (project attributed; completed in 1590 after Palladio's death)
1579: Porta Gemona, San Daniele del Friuli
San Daniele del Friuli

San Daniele del Friuli is a comune in the Province of Udine in the Italy region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 80 km northwest of Trieste and about 20 km northwest of Udine....
(Province of Udine)
1580: Church of Santa Lucia, Venice (drawings for the interior; demolished)
1580: Church (Tempietto Barbaro) of Villa Barbaro
Villa Barbaro

Villa Barbaro, also known as the Villa di Maser, is a large villa at Maser, Italy 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 ....
, Maser
1580: Teatro Olimpico
Teatro Olimpico

The Teatro Olimpico is a theatre in Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio as his last work. It is widely considered the first example of covered theatre of the Modern age....
, Vicenza (completed after Palladio's death by his son Silla and in 1585 by Vincenzo Scamozzi
Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Republic of Venice architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Venice area in the second half of the 16th century....
for the scene)

External links

website which includes material by the owners of Villa Cornaro
Villa Cornaro

Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km from Venice, Italy. It was designed by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio....
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Describes a major exhibition touring venues in Italy, the UK and the USA.
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