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Burns argues that social mobility was also important. Entrepreneurs, prosperous from agriculture
in the Veneto, commissioned the promising local architect to design their country villas and their urban
mansions. In Venice the aristocracy were anxious to co-opt talented artists, and Palladio was given the
chance to design the buildings that have made him famous— the churches of San Giorgio Maggiore and the
Redentore, both easy to admire because they can be seen from the city's historical centre across a stretch of
water.
E.
He tried his hand at bridges—his unbuilt version of the Rialto Bridge was decorated with the large
pediment and columns of a temple —and, after a fire at the Ducal Palace, he offered an alternative design
which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Banqueting House in Whitehall in London. Since it was
designed by Inigo Jones, Palladio's first foreign disciple, this is not as surprising as it sounds.
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Jones, who visited Italy in 1614, bought a trunk full of the master's architectural drawings; they
passed through the hands of the Dukes of Burlington and Devonshire before settling at the Royal Institute of
British Architects in 1894. Many are now on display at Palazzo Barbaran. What they show is how Palladio
drew on the buildings of ancient Rome as models. The major theme of both his rural and urban building was
temple architecture, with a strong pointed pediment supported by columns and approached by wide steps.
G.
Palladio's work for rich landowners alienates unreconstructed critics on the Italian left, but among
the papers in the show are designs for cheap housing in Venice. In the wider world, Palladio's reputation has
been nurtured by a text he wrote and illustrated, "Quattro Libri dell' Architettura". His influence spread to St
Petersburg and to Charlottesville in Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson commissioned a Palladian villa he
called Monticello.
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