Andrea Palladio1508-1580

• ~Andrea di Pietro della Gondola was discovered at

about the age of 30, by poet and patron, Giangiorgo Trissino, who took his

protege to Rome. There the young stonecutter took the

name Palladio, and soon became hugely popular with

local patrons, labourers, craftsmen and Venetian

nobility.

What do I think of, when I hear the Name “Palladio?”

~Renaissance architecture

~ratio and proportion

~harmonic proportions

~Geometry

~design theory

~classical architecture

Basilica Palladiana

The Breakers of Palm Beach

~Dining Room~

Turin, ItalyGuarino Guarini begun 1668; finished 1687

The Four Books on Architecture

The Palladian Window

• Sources:

~http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jan/05/architect-andrea-palladio

~http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/439923/13348/Villa-Rotonda-near-Vicenza-Italy-by-Andrea-Palladio-1550-51

~http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Redentore02.jpg

~http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/McGrawHill/atchitecture/f0698-01.png

~http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/G/9/t/palladianarches-at.jpg