Andrea Palladio
| Andrea Palladio | |
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 Portrait of Andrea Palladio by Mariotti | |
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| Birth name | Andrea di Pietro della Gondola |
| Birth | 30 November 1508 Padua  Republic of Venice |
| Deaths | 19 August 1580 (71 years) Vicenza |
| Nationality | Republic of Venice |
| Activity (s) | Chief architect of the Serenissima |
| Training | Pupil of Bartolomeo Cavazza da Sossano |
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| Achievements | Palladian Villas of Veneto |
| Publications | The Four Books of Architecture |
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Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, "said Andrea Palladio, is an architect of the Italian Renaissance was born in Padua on 30 November 1508 and died in Vicenza on 19 August 1580. He is the author of a treatise entitled The Four Books of Architecture.
His work had a considerable impact and influence even today many architects.
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Biography
Formation and early years
At 13, he entered by his father for six years in the studio of architect and sculptor Bartolomeo Cavazza da Sossano to Padua. In April 1523 , fled to Palladio Vicenza , but he was forced to return for breach of contract. A year later, he entered the guild of sculptors of Vicenza.
In 1537 , he was named as prime contractor by Count Giangiorgio Trissino to direct the construction of the villa Cricoli. Trissino is a poet, philosopher, scholar and diplomat in the service of the Roman curia is a humanist, an expert of military art and architecture enthusiast. Trissino is giving the nickname of "Palladio" Andrea, before it was called Andrea di Pietro. Trissino did admit Palladio in the humanist circle of Vicenza, the Academia Olympica.
The influence of Vitruvius and antiquity
Giangiorgio Trissino, author of epic poetry L'Italia Liberata dai Goti, made known to Palladio's works Vitruvius and Alberti , and Palladio pushes to improve himself in the liberal arts and humanism. Trissino and Palladio are in 1541 , the first archaeological journey to Rome where they deepen their knowledge of the ancient art of building.
After this first trip back to Vicenza, where Palladio while exercising his art he furthered his study of Vitruvius. He returned several times to Rome in 1545 , 1547 and 1549 to perfect his statements that specify and compares with the writings of Vitruvius.
Besides Vitruvius which he is a careful reader, Palladio also refers to many Latin authors such as Pliny , Julius Caesar and authors that are more contemporary like Leon Battista Alberti and Vasari Palladio in Venice From 1550 , despite the disappearance of Giangiorgio Trissino and Paul III , the famous Palladian extends to Venice where he directed the construction of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore. In 1554 , under Julius III , Palladio made his last trip to Rome with the "Reverend Daniel Barbaro , Patriarch of Aquileia " , with whom he collaborated in the edition of De Architectura of Vitruvius, published in Venice in 1556. In 1554 , Palladio publishes The Antichita di Roma. Despite the representations of the temples of Nimes in the four books it seems that Palladio has never left Italy during his travels. He could have made a trip to Piedmont , at the request of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy during the summer 1566 . It is perhaps during this trip that he went to La Turbie which he describes, again in the Four Books on Roman monument. His talent was recognized in Florence where he was admitted in 1566 as a member of the Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno. The Four Books of Architecture were published in 1570 in Venice and the woodcuts have done under the leadership of Palladio. That same year, Palladio succeeded Jacopo Sansovino , who died, the responsibility of chief architect of Venice, where he built the churches of San Giorgio Maggiore and the Redeemer. Andrea Palladio died in 1580 before completing the Olympic Theatre in Vicenza that his disciple Vincenzo Scamozzi end. Palladio has no contemporary portrait made of the master, whether a portrait or picture literary arts. Andrea Palladio's still very secretive about himself and his physical appearance. There is a very vague self-portrait, which is located in the address to the reader of the Four Books of Architecture. It does not appear to have been no biography of the seventeenth century before . The order of the statue of the Olympic Academy of date almost eight years after Palladio's death "until the memory features of the master is still alive." The most famous portrait dated XVIII century, it is attributed to the engraver Mariotti, this picture shows a book on the Olympic Theatre in Vicenza. The frontispiece of The Architecture of A. Palladio (1715) first edition in English by Giacomo Leoni Quattro libri dell'architettura presents a whimsical portrait. This type of portrait seems to have been taken by Lord Burlington in 1730 that publishes a fanciful portrait of Palladio and beardless attributed to William Kent. In any event the person shown on the "portraits" is not British Palladio. Palladio's architectural production is concentrated in Veneto where one can still admire, Vicenza , the Olympic Theatre , Grand Palace, City said Palladian Basilica , the Loggia del Capitanio , many palaces and villas, including the famous Villa Rotonda. The filmmaker Joseph Losey in 1979 has the genius to stage this architecture through Mozart's opera " Don Giovanni ". The Palladian Villas of the most famous are: Public works and urban residences: Note: Dates refer to the design works, not necessarily to their construction or completion. Source: CISA The Four Books of Architecture (I Quattro Libri dell'Architectura) are inseparable from the work of Palladio. This architectural treatise , published in Venice in 1570 , is both an expression of theoretical thinking and the presentation of works carried out or planned by Palladio. Palladio was an architect of the Italian Renaissance and can be regarded as a humanist. Palladio is a man of his time, through his writings a universalist thinking may be influenced by Vitruvius or Pliny through. A constant concern for proportion and symmetry as found in nature is explicit in the work of Palladio. Palladio great care to apply the rules of proportion recommended by the ancients to the architectural composition, including the rules of musical proportions set forth by Pythagoras. Palladio wrote in a memoir of 1567: On this point, the student goes beyond Palladio's Vitruvian master, because he made a bright show of what the master sets laboriously. It is probably this clarity about who wowed Roland Frart Chambray in his translation of the Four Books of Architecture. The success of the thought of Palladio is also tied to major controversy as the a href = "Querelle_des_Anciens_et_des_Modernes"> quarrel between ancients and moderns. Palladio is Trissino as a slayer of Gothic art. His theoretical work aims to create an explicit method for not falling into the old disorder. His style, drawing on elements of ancient architecture and architect Leon Battista Alberti , often including pedimented facades. In the many villas built in Veneto , he is particularly inspired and original in the reuse of these elements of ancient architecture that still give his works a sense of grace and balance. Palladio also incorporates modern architectural motifs, such as serlienne , to whom the success of his work brings a great influence, and popularized the railings. From an original way, he chose to use brick masonry coated stucco. The stone should be used only for the details or pediments, making possible a contrast between the white stone (often marble) and red the rest of the building. Leon Battista Alberti Andrea Palladio Serlio Andrea Palladio Palladio's architectural thinking has been very successful in Britain where the architect Inigo Jones is an ardent proponent of this thought. It is surprising to find the name Palladio, and many other architects of the Italian Renaissance in the historical text of Anderson's Constitutions published in London in 1723. It is by Great Britain on the eve of the French Revolution, the art of Palladio returned to France: in fact, the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux discovered the Palladianism , that is to say that art inspired by Palladio, and reintroduced in France. Thomas Jefferson himself was interested in the work of Palladio when traveling in Europe. His house in Monticello , near Charlottesville , which he himself drew up the plans, is an example. A contemporary of President Jefferson reported that he liked to say: "My master Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture my Bible." Other more contemporary architects are also influenced by Palladio, Ricardo Bofill, including who has to his credit over five hundred projects in some fifty countries, Aldo Rossi , Charles Moore and many others. The portraits of Palladio
The Work of Palladio
Achievements
The most famous
Chronological list of works
The influence of Palladian architecture
Publications
A theorist
Style
Renaissance facade, Basilique Saint-Andre of Mantua , 1472-1494 
Pediment to the ancient Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice , ap.1566 
Church facade (1537) 
Palladian Basilica
Vicenza , imitators and admirers
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