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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.
Coordinates: 45°32′57″N 11°32′57″E. The Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza (northern Italy ), designed by Andrea Palladio . History. Palladio was asked to design and build the palazzo by Count Girolamo Chiericati.
View the ground plan of Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza. Page of Exterior view by PALLADIO, Andrea in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900)
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In the second of his I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura [The Four Books of Architecture], there is a description of palazzo Chiericati (Palladio 1570, 2: 6-7), accompanied by a plan of the ground floor (Fig. 1) and an elevation of the main façade (Fig. 2).
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The lines of the layout that will not receive walls are shown in gray. For Palazzo Chiericati. Here, an MxM square grid has been placed on the Fibonacci layout so the reader can confirm the dimensions. Palladio makes the module 4 ft, and this is the floor plan. Gray areas are the walls.
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
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 ...
