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Teatro Olimpico. Projects. I quattro libri dell'architettura ( The Four Books of Architecture) Andrea Palladio ( / pəˈlɑːdioʊ / pə-LAH-dee-oh; Italian: [anˈdrɛːa palˈlaːdjo]; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.
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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 ...
Nov 19, 2020 · Andrea Palladio (1508-1580 CE) was an Italian Renaissance architect most famous for the villas he designed in and around Vicenza and two large churches in Venice. Palladio blended elements of classical architecture, particularly the orders, to create harmonious buildings and was so successful that he became the foremost architect in northern Italy.
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Updated on July 09, 2019. Andrea Palladio (born November 30, 1508 in Padua, Italy) transformed architecture not only during his lifetime, but his reinterpreted Classical stylings were imitated from the 18th century until today. Today Palladio's architecture is a model for building with the 3 rules of architecture attributed to Vitruvius—a ...
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Andrea Palladio - Venetian Architecture, Renaissance, Villas: After 1570 Palladio’s life was centred on the building of churches in Venice. In the Veneto, because of a war with the papacy, few churches had been built in the first half of the century, and there are no church designs in his early drawings.
Jun 11, 2018 · Palladio, Andrea (1508–80). One of the most gifted, professional, and intelligent of architects working in Italy in C16, whose work provided the models for the Palladian style ( Palladianism) and had a profound effect on Western architectural thinking.
Dec 6, 2023 · 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.
