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Floor plan (drawing by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1776) Cross section (Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, 1776) Conservation. Since 1855 the building has housed the Museo Civico ('City Museum') and, more recently, the city's art gallery.
Italy (made) The drawing shows an elevation and a plan of the ground floor portico of Palazzo Chiericati, built from 1551 after the design of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Commissioned by Girolamo Chiericati in 1550, the Palace is located in the south-eastern outskirts of Vicenza and is one of Palladio’s most individual designs.
Fig. 1. Palazzo Chiericati (Vicenza), ground plan (Palladio, Quattro libri, II, p. 6). building, the height of at least one pair of smaller rooms (each 20 x 18 ft.) was determined using method a, although they have vaulted ceilings. In Villa Garzadore (Vicenza), p. 77, there are rooms with vaulted ceilings whose height is equal to their width
Fig. 3: Overview of palazzo Chiericati from Matteotti square. that occupies the central part of the façade and by two side loggias with coffered ceilings. The plan of the palazzo follows the rectangular shape of the site; the rooms and the staircases are placed symmetrically to the double-apse atrium and to the hall on the main floor.
- Damiana Lucia Paternò
The Civic Art Gallery is in the Palazzo Chiericati, designed by Andrea Palladio in 1550 in his early maturity for Gerolamo Chiericati. The grandiose building was completed at the end of the seventeenth century, generally in keeping with the original design. The Municipality di Vicenza bought it from the noble Chiericati family in 1839 to house ...
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Palazzo Chiericati Vicenza, begun c.1547 Architect: Palladio BACKGROUND . Commission. Girolamo Chiericati commissioned Andrea Palladio to design the Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza. Location. The palace faced the Piazza dell'Isola, whose name refers to its location near the junction of two rivers. The piazza had municipal significance as both a ...
In the Palazzo Chiericati the façade alludes subtly to the idea of an urban piazza. The plan of the Palazzo Chiericati is strictly symmetrical about a rectangular court at the rear, parallel to the street.
