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Palladio was born on 30 November 1508 in Padua and was given the name Andrea di Pietro della Gondola (Venetian: Andrea de Piero de ła Gondoła). [5] His father, Pietro, called "della Gondola", was a miller. From an early age, Andrea Palladio was introduced to the work of building.
Andrea Palladio on Empty Canon; Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy, at the Royal Academy, review, The Telegraph, 2 February 2009; How I Spent A Few Days in Palladio's World, The Wall Street Journal, 3 March 2009; All He Surveyed, Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker, 30 March 2009; Principles of Palladio's Architecture: II, Journal of the Warburg ...
Andrea Palladio's architectural fame is considered to have come from the many villas he designed.The building of Villa Emo was the culmination of a long-lasting project of the patrician Emo family [] of the Republic of Venice to develop its estates at Fanzolo.
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza.One of Palladio's most influential designs. Villa Godi in Lugo Vicentino.An early work notable for lack of external decoration. The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in the Veneto, the mainland region of north-eastern Italy then under the political control of the ...
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 Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, with frescos by Paolo Veronese and sculptures by Alessandro Vittoria, for Daniele Barbaro, Patriarch of Aquileia and ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I of England and his brother Marcantonio, an ambassador ...
Villa La Rotonda is a Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza in Northern Italy designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and begun in 1567, though not completed until the 1590s.
Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry , perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
It was designed for Giovanni Chiericati by the architect Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s. Palladio also designed the family's town house Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza . In 1996, UNESCO included the villa in the World Heritage Site City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto .