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Andrea Palladio: Italian architect
A new exhibition celebrates Palladio’s architecture 500 years on
A.
Vicenza is a pleasant, prosperous city in the Veneto, 60km west of Venice. Its grand families
settled and farmed the area from the 16th century. But its principal claim to fame
is Andrea Palladio, who is
such an influential architect that a neoclassical style is known as Palladian. The city is a permanent
exhibition of some
of his finest buildings, and as he was born— in Padua, to be precise—500 years ago, the
International Centre for the Study of Palladio's Architecture has an excellent excuse for mounting
lagrande
mostra,
the big show.
B.
The exhibition has the special advantage of being held in one of Palladio's buildings, Palazzo
Barbaran da Porto. Its bold facade is a mixture of rustication and decoration set
between two rows of elegant
columns. On the second floor the pediments are alternately curved or pointed, a Palladian trademark. The
harmonious proportions of the atrium at the entrance lead through to a dramatic
interior of fine fireplaces
and painted ceilings. Palladio's design is simple, clear and not over-crowded. The show has been organised
on the
same principles, according to Howard Burns, the architectural historian who co-curated it.
C.
Palladio's father was a miller who settled in did a humble miller's son become a world renowned
architect? The answer in the
exhibition is that, as a young man, Palladio excelled at
carving decorative
stonework on columns, doorways and fireplaces. He was plainly intelligent, and lucky enough to come
across a rich patron, Gian Giorgio Trissino, a
landowner and scholar, who organised his education, taking
him to Rome in the 1540s, where he studied the masterpieces of classical Roman and Greek architecture and
the work of other influential architects of the time, such as Donato Bramante and Raphael.
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