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The Basilica Palladiana is a Renaissance building in the central Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, north-eastern Italy.The most notable feature of the edifice is the loggia, which shows one of the first examples of what have come to be known as the Palladian window, designed by a young Andrea Palladio, whose work in architecture was to have a significant effect on the field during the Renaissance ...
La Basilica Palladiana (origin.Basilica) è un edificio pubblico che si affaccia su Piazza dei Signori a Vicenza.Il suo nome è indissolubilmente legato all'architetto rinascimentale Andrea Palladio, che riprogettò il Palazzo della Ragione aggiungendo alla preesistente costruzione gotica, ancora ben visibile sotto le arcate palladiane nella fascia sopra gli esercizi commerciali, le celebri ...
The Palladian Basilica. It was built between 1549 and 1614 in Signori Square, in the drawing room of the Vicenza city, on a project by the great Renaissance architect. "It is not possible to describe the impression that the Basilica of Palladio makes", with these words he tried to express the emotions he felt when he saw this splendid building ...
Basilica Palladiana is a palace in Vicenza, overlooking Piazza dei Signori, inextricably linked to the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The architect redesigned the Gothic Palazzo della Ragione by adding the loggias with the famous white marble serliane. A serliana, also known as a Palladian window, is an architectural motif popularized ...
- Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Veneto
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One of the most important works of his early Vicenza period is the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza (1546), the palace of the city government. Palladio called it "Basilica", explaining that the functions and form of a modern city hall resembled those of an ancient Roman Basilica. He did not construct the building from the ground up, but added two ...
Oh happy days of Palladio and enviable joy! For him, the Basilica had become his longed-for poem, and great credit was due to Trissino: much also to that host of nobles, who showed him so much favor; and Vicenza, which was adorned with palaces, saw the rise of a highly praised head of work (Francesco Formenton, Storia e illustrazione della basilica di Palladio in Vicenza, 1870).
The city of Vicenza and the Palladian villas of the Veneto is a serial site including the city of Vicenza and twenty-four Palladian villas scattered in the Veneto area. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994, the site initially comprised only the city of Vicenza with its twenty-three buildings attributed to Palladio, as well as three ...
