The Architecture of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
with some consideration of Paolo Veronese

Early Architecture: the Villas

• Vasari's biography of Palladio.

• Villa Godi, Lonedo ca. 1540.
  The earliest of Palladio's villas, a transitional design still strongly connected to local traditions. The UNESCO site
  Above is the drawing from the Quattro Libri, showing the completed Villa from the Quattro Libri, with the barchesse--storage sheds.
• Villa Pisani at Bagnolo di Lonigo 1542. Be sure to click the photo of the Sala Centrale to enjoy the view of the elegant central hall.
• Villa Gazzotti at Bertesina. circa 1542.
• Villa Saraceno at Lisiera. 1540s.
• Villa Malcontenta (Foscari) 1558.

Palladio's Public Buildings

• The Basilica, Vicenza. 1546-1549.
• Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza 1550. Work on this was actually completed over a century later.

Later Architecture in the Veneto

• Villa Rotonda (Capra). 1550s.
• Villa Valmarana at Lisiera The rebuilt lamp-store Villa. Circa 1563.

Palladio's Quattro Libri dell'architettura

• A small site from the Met Published 1570.
• An advertisement for a copy of the first edition. Got $32,000 to spare?
• "Harmonic Proportion and Palladio's Quattro Libri." By Deborah Howard and Malcolm Longair. Historic article from The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 41, No. 2. (May, 1982): 116-143.

Later Titian and Palladio

• The later paintings of Titian can be found in Steer and in other related sources both on reserve and on the shelves in Richter Library.
• On Palladio, particularly in Venice:
  1. San Francesco della Vigna 1564.
  2. San Giorgio Maggiore 1565. Remember the facade is not by Palladio!!! (Completed 1611)
  3. Il Redentore 1577.

  The links to the above all come from the Web site for the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio. See below for some other projects:

• Canaletto's fantasy painting showing how the Rialto Bridge would have looked if it had been built to Palladio's design.

• The Rialto Bridge as built to the design of Antonio da Ponte.

• A real bridge by Palladio! At Bassano del Grappa. Over the Brenta River. 1569.

• Teatro Olimpico Begun just a few months before Palladio's death in 1580. The first covered permanent theatre.

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