Andrea Palladio
Italian architect (1508-1580) · Italy · Architects · Died at 71
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Something wrong?His country houses rewrote the grammar of Western building. Four centuries on, columns and pediments still quote him - every neoclassical bank, every American plantation, every suburban portico traces back to a stonemason's son working in the Veneto.
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Andrea Palladio - Battista del Moro - Design of a Tomb, 1989
Chiesa San Lorenzo Vicenza - Interno - Monumento funebre Brunoro Volpe.jpg?width=1200)
Dorisches Piedestal (Palladio, Georg Andreas Böckler, 1698, Fol.35)
I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia MET DP-12965-001
Palladio's Vitruvian Door
The First Book of Architecture MET DP337467
Villa Emo a Fanzolo di VedelagoIn their orbit
About this person
Andrea Palladio was born 30 November 1508 in the Venetian Republic and trained as a stonemason before turning to architecture. Steeped in Vitruvius and the ruins of Rome, he spent his career designing churches, palaces, and above all the villas that made his name - country houses for Venetian patrons scattered across the Veneto. In 1570 he published The Four Books of Architecture, a treatise that codified his method and carried his influence across Europe and the Atlantic. By his death on 19 August 1580, he'd shaped Vicenza with 23 buildings; today those works and 24 villas hold UNESCO World Heritage status. The churches stand within Venice's own protected lagoon, but it's the villas - their proportions, their temple fronts - that became the template for centuries of building to come.
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