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Monument to Vincenzo Scamozzi. Church of San Lorenzo, Vicenza. 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, laid out in Serlio's book. Vincenzo visited Rome in 1579–1580, and then moved to Venice in
This theatre, which was designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is sometimes also referred to, somewhat confusingly, as the "Teatro Olimpico ", [13] and some of its design elements, including most notably the colonnade behind the seating area and the self-conscious references to ancient Rome, are clearly drawn from the original Teatro Olimpico.
Rocca Pisana is a 16-century patrician villa in the comune of Lonigo, province of Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi for the Pisani family. In Italy there are several villas called Villa Pisani, which take their name from this powerful Venetian family. This villa is also known as "La Rocca" or "La Rocca Pisana".
Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare is a patrician palace in Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, probably in 1572, and built after Palladio's death by Vincenzo Scamozzi. It is one of the city palazzi of the Thiene family that Palladio worked upon, the other being Palazzo Thiene in the near contrà Porti.
Sabbioneta – Teatro all'antica, first free-standing theatre of the Modern Era, built from 1588 to 1590 by architect Vincenzo Scamozzi based on the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza San Giovanni in Persiceto – Municipal Theatre [ it ] , in 1626 a hall was built as a theatre, in 1659 it was converted to a theatre with box seats, in 1790 it was ...
The following year Vincenzo Scamozzi was selected to oversee the construction of the final five bays, continuing Sansovino's design for the façade. [75] This brought the building down to the embankment of Saint Mark's Basin and into alignment with the main façade of the mint. Scamozzi added the crowning statues and obelisks.
It was designed for Nicolò Molin, a Venetian noble, [1] by Vincenzo Scamozzi and completed in 1597. It faces Mandriola, on the opposite side of the Canale di Battaglia. The original agricultural setting of the villa, composed of pasture and orchards, has given way to a residential dormitory community of Padua.
The perspective scenery is a modern reconstruction of Scamozzi's original work. Vincenzo Scamozzi's elevation (top) and floor plan (below) for the Teatro all'Antica. The Teatro all'Antica ("Theater in the style of the ancients") is a theatre in Sabbioneta , northern Italy ; it was the first free-standing, purpose-built theater in the modern world.