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Villa La Rotonda. / 45.5315°N 11.5603°E / 45.5315; 11.5603. Villa La Rotonda is a Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza in Northern Italy designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and begun in 1567, though not completed until the 1590s. The villa's official name is Villa Almerico Capra Valmarana, but it is also known ...
Dec 6, 2023 · Andrea Palladio, plan of the Villa Rotonda (formerly Villa Capra), 1566-1590s, near Vicenza, Italy, (photo: Penn State University Library) As an architect, Palladio was acutely interested in engaging viewers, something he often accomplished by making use of striking façades. What makes La Rotonda extremely unique is that it displays not one ...
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May 22, 2020 · Completed in 1592, La Villa Capra “La Rotonda” is a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture designed by architect Andrea Palladio. Commissioned by Paolo Almerico, the villa was intended to serve as a recreational retreat, a harmonious blend of private living quarters and functional spaces, where Almerico could spend his final years indulging in leisure and spiritual activities pursuits.
Designed by Andrea Palladio, the Villa Almerico-Capra, commonly known as La Rotonda, would become one of the most recognizable buildings of the Renaissance. It is a building that consciously recalls ancient Roman classical models but its innovative design had a lasting impact for future generations of architects in Italy and abroad.
Apr 1, 2024 · Andrea Palladio (born Nov. 30, 1508, Padua, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died August 1580, Vicenza) was an Italian architect, regarded as the greatest architect of 16th-century northern Italy. His designs for palaces (palazzi) and villas, notably the Villa Rotonda (1550–51) near Vicenza, and his treatise I quattro libri dell’architettura ...
Stefan Bauer. Villa Capra "La Rotonda" is a Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio. The correct name is Villa Almerico-Capra. It is also known as La Rotonda, Villa Rotunda, Villa La Rotonda, and Villa Almerico. The name "Capra" derives from the Capra brothers, who completed the building after it was ...
Of all the villages Venetian Renaissance architect Palladio (Andrea di Pietro della Gondola) does in the countryside of Vicenza, it called the Villa Rotonda (Capra town or village-Valmarana Capra) is the most famous. It was built between the years 1567 – 1570, in an ideal landscape, built as a mansion Vatican official called Paolo Almere ...
