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Vincenzo Scamozzi (September 2, 1548 - August 7, 1616) was an 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....
 and a writer on architecture, active mainly in 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....
 and 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 ....
 area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps the most important figure there between Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio , was a Republic of Venice architect, widely considered the most influential architect in the Architectural history. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture....
 and 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....
, Scamozzi's only pupil.

Scamozzi was born in Vicenza. His father was the surveyor and building contractor Gian Domenico Scamozzi; he was Scamozzi's first teacher, imbuing him with the principles of Sebastiano Serlio
Sebastiano Serlio

Sebastiano Serlio was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Ch?teau de Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in his influential treatise, "I sette libri dell'architettura" ....
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Vincenzo Scamozzi (September 2, 1548 - August 7, 1616) was an 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....
 and a writer on architecture, active mainly in 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....
 and 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 ....
 area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps the most important figure there between Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio , was a Republic of Venice architect, widely considered the most influential architect in the Architectural history. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture....
 and 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....
, Scamozzi's only pupil.

Scamozzi was born in Vicenza. His father was the surveyor and building contractor Gian Domenico Scamozzi; he was Scamozzi's first teacher, imbuing him with the principles of Sebastiano Serlio
Sebastiano Serlio

Sebastiano Serlio was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Ch?teau de Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in his influential treatise, "I sette libri dell'architettura" ....
. Vincenzo visited 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 ....
 in 1579-1580, and then moved to Venice in 1581. In 1600 he visited France and left a sketchbook record of his impressions of French architecture that first saw the light of day in 1960.

Scamozzi's influence spread far beyond his Italian commissions through his treatise, L'Idea della Architettura Universale ("The Universal Idea of Architecture"), which is the last of the Renaissance works on the theory of architecture. It was published with woodcut illustrations at Venice in 1615. Scamozzi depended for sections of his treatment of Vitruvius
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....
 to 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 ....
's commentary, published in 1556 with illustrations by Palladio; he also discussed issues of building practice. Such treatises were becoming a vehicle for self-promotion, and Scamozzi included many of his own plans and elevations, as built, as they should have been built, and as idealized projects. Scamozzi knew the value of publicity distributed through the established channels of the book trade.

Previously, his first book had been a quickly cobbled together illustrated commentary on the ruins of Rome, assembled in "the space of a few of days," according to his preface, and the woodcut images were stock productions that already existed. Over half were copied from a volume by Hieronymus Cock
Hieronymus Cock

Hieronymus Cock was a Flemish people painter and etcher of the Northern Renaissance, but was perhaps most significant as a publisher and distributor of old master print....
 that appeared in the 1550s.

His major book came out too late to influence his own success; he died the following year. Scamozzi's practice is as much the source of the neo-Palladian architecture that was introduced by 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....
 as Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio , was a Republic of Venice architect, widely considered the most influential architect in the Architectural history. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture....
's own example. Rudolf Wittkower
Rudolf Wittkower

Rudolf Wittkower was a Germany art historian.He was born in Berlin and moved to London in 1934. He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London from 1934 to 1956 and then at Columbia University from 1956 to 1969 where he was chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology....
 called him "the intellectural father of neo-classicism".

Chronology of works

All but one of the following works are in Republic of Venice:

  • 1568-1575: Villa of Girolamo Ferramosca, Barbano di Grisignano di Zocco
    Grisignano di Zocco

    Grisignano di Zocco is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is south of E70.Sources...
     (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 ....
    ) (with Gian Domenico Scamozzi)
  • 1569: Palazzo Godi, 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....
     (project, altered during later execution)
  • 1572-1593: Palazzo Thiene-Bonin, Vicenza
  • 1574-1615: Villa of Leonardo Verlato, Villaverla
    Villaverla

    Villaverla is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is west of SP349 and south of A31....
     (Vicenza)
  • 1575: Palazzo Caldogno, Vicenza
  • 1575-1578: Rocca Pisana
    Rocca Pisana

    There are several villas called Villa Pisani in Italy. This one is also known as La Rocca or La Rocca Pisana. It is a sixteenth-century Palladian villa in the comune of Lonigo....
     (Vettor Pisani Villa), 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....
     (Vicenza)
  • 1576-1579: Trissino-Trento (Pierfranceso Trissino Palace), Vicenza (with Gian Domenico Scamozzi)
  • 1580: Villa of Francesco Priuli, Treville di Castelfranco Veneto
    Castelfranco Veneto

    Castelfranco Veneto is a town and comune of Veneto, northern Italy, in the province of Treviso, 25 km by rail from the town of Treviso....
     (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 ....
    ) (north wing)
  • 1580-1584: Villa Nani Mocenigo, Canda
    Canda

    Canda is a comune in the Province of Rovigo in the Italy region Veneto, located about 80 km southwest of Venice and about 20 km west 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....
    )
  • 1580-1592: Villa Capra "La Rotonda", near Vicenza (completed construction of Andrea Palladio
    Andrea Palladio

    Andrea Palladio , was a Republic of Venice architect, widely considered the most influential architect in the Architectural history. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture....
    's structure for Mario Capra, and added stables, not completed until 1620)
    Villa Molin A Mandria (padova)
    * 1581-1586: Church of San Gaetano Thiene, 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 ....
  • 1581-1599: Procuratie Nuove, Piazza San Marco
    Piazza San Marco

    Piazza San Marco , is the principal town square of Venice, Italy.A remark often attributed to Napoleon I of France calls the Piazza San Marco "The drawing room of Europe"....
    , Venice (continued with a different interior design by Francesco Smeraldi and completed in 1663 by Longhena)
  • 1582: Palazzo Cividale, Vicenza [attributed]
  • 1582-1591: Library of San Marco
    Biblioteca Marciana

    The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is a library and Renaissance building in Venice, northern Italy; it is one of the earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in the country, holding one of the greatest classical texts collections in the world....
    , Venice (completion of 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....
    's design)
  • 1584-1585: 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 (remodeling of structure designed by Andrea Palladio, wooden scene)
  • 1587-1596: Library of San Marco
    Biblioteca Marciana

    The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is a library and Renaissance building in Venice, northern Italy; it is one of the earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in the country, holding one of the greatest classical texts collections in the world....
    , Venice (the vestibule, Antisala)
  • 1588: Villa Cornaro, Poisolo, Treville di Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso) (reconstruction)
  • 1588-1590: Theater for Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga, Sabbioneta
    Sabbioneta

    Sabbioneta is a town in Lombardy, northern Italy, in the province of Mantua, about 30 km north of Parma, not far from the northern bank of the Po River....
     (Province of Mantova)
  • 1590: Villa of Girolamo Contarini, Loreggia
    Loreggia

    Loreggia is a comune in the Province of Padua in the Italy region Veneto, located about 35 km northwest of Venice and about 20 km northeast of Padua....
     (Padua) (revised in construction)
  • 1590-1595: Church of San Nicolò da Tolentino
    San Nicolò da Tolentino

    The Chiesa di San Nicol? da Tolentino, commonly known as the Tolentini, is a church in Venice, northern Italy, the home of the Theatines order in the city....
    , Venice
  • 1591-1593: Statuary of Venice Republic (museum), Venice
  • 1591-1594: Monastery of San Gaetano Thiene, 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 ....
  • 1591-1595: Villa of Girolamo 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 ....
    ) (completion) [attributed]
  • 1591-1597: Villa Duodo
    Villa Duodo

    Villa Duodo also known as the is a villa situated at Monselice near Padua in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is attributed to the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi although some later parts are known to have been designed by Andrea Tirali....
     and Chapel of San Giorgio, Monselice
    Monselice

    Monselice is a town and municipality located in northeastern Italy, in the Veneto region, in the province of Padua.It is about 20 Km southeast of the city of Padua, at the southern edge of the Euganean Hills ....
     (Padua)
  • 1592-1616: Palace of Galeazzo Trissino al Corso, Vicenza
  • 1594-1600: Villa of Valerio Bardellini, Monfumo
    Monfumo

    Monfumo is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italy region Veneto, located about 50 km northwest of Venice and about 30 km northwest of Treviso....
  • 1596: Villa of Girolamo Ferretti on the River Brenta, Sambruson del Dolo (Venice)
  • 1596-1597: Villa of Girolamo 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....
     (Padua) (stable)
  • 1597: Villa Molin
    Villa Molin

    Villa Molin is a patrician residence at Mandria, in Ponte della Cagna, south of Padua, Italy, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It was designed for Nicol? Molin, a Venice noble, by Vincenzo Scamozzi and completed in 1597....
    , Mandria, (Padua)
  • 1597: Villa Priuli, Carrara (Padua)
  • 1597-1598: Villa Godi, Sarmego 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....
     (Vicenza)
  • 1601: Palazzo del Bò, Padua (university facade)
  • 1601-1606: San Giacomo di Rialto, 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 ....
     (altar of Scuola degli Orefici; with Girolamo Campagna
    Girolamo Campagna

    Girolamo Campagna was a Northern Italian sculptor.He studied under Jacopo Sansovino and Danese Cattaneo, and completed many of the latter's works....
    )
  • 1601-1636: San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti Church and Hospital, Venice
  • 1604-1612: Cathedral of Sts. Rupert and Virgil, Salzburg, Austria (completed in 1614-28 by Santino Solari
    Santino Solari

    Santino Solari , was a Switzerland architect and sculpture, who worked mainly in Austria.In 1612, he was appointed chief architect of Salzburg by the archbishop Markus Sittikus....
    )
  • 1605: Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (sacristy door; with Alessandro Vittoria
    Alessandro Vittoria

    Alessandro Vittoria was an Italy Mannerism sculpture of the Venetian school, "one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style" and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy,....
    )
  • 1605-1616: Villa Duodo, Monselice
    Monselice

    Monselice is a town and municipality located in northeastern Italy, in the Veneto region, in the province of Padua.It is about 20 Km southeast of the city of Padua, at the southern edge of the Euganean Hills ....
     (Padua) (six chapels for Via Romana)
  • 1607-1611: San Giorgio Maggiore (church), Venice (completion of Palladio's facade)
  • 1607-1616: Villa Cornaro al Paradiso, Venice (twin pavilions)
  • 1609: Domenico Trevisan Villa, San Donà di Piave
  • 1609-1616: Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni, San Trovaso on the Canal Grande, Venice
  • 1614: Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi
    Ca' Vendramin Calergi

    Ca' Vendramin Calergi is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Other names by which it is known include: Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi, and Palazzo Loredan Griman Calergi Vendramin. The architecturally distinguished building was the home of many prominent people through history, and is re...
    , 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 ....
     (east wing; demolished in 1659 and rebuilt in 1660)


Bibliography

  • in Annali di architettura n° 14, Vicenza 2002
  • in Annali di architettura n° 14, Vicenza 2002
  • in Annali di architettura, n° 18-19, 2007
  • in Annali di architettura, n° 18-19, 2007
  • in Annali di architettura, n° 18-19, 2007
  • in Annali di architettura, n° 18-19, 2007