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Because buildings were tightly packed, Venice was even more prone than other Italian city centres to fires, creating the need for many of the new buildings. In particular the Rialto district was almost destroyed in 1514, [ 14 ] and the Doge's Palace had bad fires in 1483, 1547, and 1577, although the Gothic exterior facades survived.
Venetian Gothic is the particular form of Italian Gothic architecture typical of Venice, originating in local building requirements, with some influence from Byzantine architecture, and some from Islamic architecture, reflecting Venice's trading network. Very unusually for medieval architecture, the style is at its most characteristic in ...
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 ...
Religious buildings and structures in Venice (2 C, 1 P) S. Scuole Grandi of Venice (6 P) T. Theatres in Venice (2 C, 8 P)
Venetian Arsenal (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Venice" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Velma (plural velme) is a Venetian dialect term derived from "melma" (mud). It is also used by Italian scientists to refer to lagunar mudflats (also called tidal flats), such as those found in the Lagoon of Venice. They are areas of shallow lagunar bottoms which are normally submerged, but emerge at low tides.
The suburban villa was a particular type of building, a house near a city designed primarily for entertaining. Villa Barbaro (begun 1557) at Maser was an imposing suburban villa, built for the brothers Marcantonio and Daniele Barbaro , who were respectively occupied with politics and religious affairs in the Veneto , or Venice region.
Giorgione (c. 1477/8–1510), painter, with Titian founded the Venetian school of Renaissance Painting Giovanni d'Alemagna (c. 1411–1450), German painter who worked in Venice Guglielmo dei Grigi (c. 1485–1550), architect and sculptor, designed the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi