Research topic: Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio , 1508-80, Italian architect of the Renaissance. He studied in Vicenza, and later in Rome he examined the remains of Roman architecture. The measured drawings he made of these were published with compositions of his own and, based on the treatise of Vitruvius , a description of practical systems of design and proportioning. This famous work, I quattro libri dell'architectura (1570, tr. The Four Books of Architecture, 1716), was reissued many times. His buildings, chiefly town palaces and villas, were executed mostly in Vicenza and its vicinity. Usually they were made... Read more