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ARCH 242: BUILDING HISTORY II
Renaissance & Baroque: Rise & Evolution of the Architect
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AGENDA FOR TODAY...
ANDREA PALLADIO (1508-1580)
- The Commercial Architect
- I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura
- Palladio’s Thematics
- Palazzo della Ragione
- Villa Barbaro
- Villa Rotunda
- San Giorgio Maggiore
- Redentore
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ANDREA PALLADIO
Andrea Palladio 1508-1580
- born in Padua, Italy near Venice
- projects in & near Vicenza as well as Venice
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LOCATIONS IN ITALY
Map of Italy
VenicePaduaVicenza
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SACK OF ROME, 1527
The Sack of Rome in 1527 by Johannes Lingelbach
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ANDREA PALLADIO
Andrea Palladio 1508-1580
- born in Padua, Italy near Venice
- projects in & near Vicenza as well as Venice
- originally trained as a stonemason - studied latin literature, music, mathematics, and the treatise of Vitruvius
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PALLADIO IN ROME
Rome in 1551
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I QUATTRO LIBRI DELL’ ARCHITETTURA
Andrea Palladio’s Four Books of Architecture
- published in 1570
- inspired by Vitruvius and Alberti
- Palladio believed there was a “correct” way to design
- This document issued standards for that way
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PALLADIO’S THEMATICS
Prevedari Etching, Bramante Pantheon Drawing, Palladio
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PALLADIO’S THEMATICS
Palladio’s thematics are rooted in proportion
- Palladio is one of the most copied architects in history
- did not look at the part to whole relationship like Bramante
- Palladio looked at architecture as a “whole” that was independent of its parts
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ANDREA PALLADIO
Andrea Palladio 1508-1580
- born in Padua, Italy near Venice
- projects in & near Vicenza as well as Venice
- originally trained as a stonemason - studied latin literature, music, mathematics, and the treatise of Vitruvius
- The Commercial Architect
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VICENZA, ITALY
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01 Palazzo della Ragione
02 Villa Barbaro
03 Villa Rotunda
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PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE, begun 1548
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PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE, begun 1548
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VILLAS & PALAZZOS
The Palladian Villa
- the transition from High Renaissance to Mannerism initiated with the villa
- Palladio’s villa & palazzo designs derive from four (4) sources
1 - High Renaissance villas built before 1527, like Raphael’s Villa Madama (1516)
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VILLAS & PALAZZOS
The Palladian Villa
- the transition from High Renaissance to Mannerism initiated with the villa
- Palladio’s villa & palazzo designs derive from four (4) sources
1 - High Renaissance villas built before 1527, like Raphael’s Villa Madama (1516)
2- Regional work completed in Verona & Venice, like Sansovino’s Biblioteca Nazionale (1536)
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VILLAS & PALAZZOS
The Palladian Villa
- the transition from High Renaissance to Mannerism initiated with the villa
- Palladio’s villa & palazzo designs derive from four (4) sources
1 - High Renaissance villas built before 1527, like Raphael’s Villa Madama (1516)
2- Regional work completed in Verona & Venice, like Sansovino’s Biblioteca Nazionale (1536)
3 - Mannerist villas, like Giulio Romano’s Palazo Te (1527)
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VILLAS & PALAZZOS
The Palladian Villa
- the transition from High Renaissance to Mannerism initiated with the villa
- Palladio’s villa & palazzo designs derive from four (4) sources
1 - High Renaissance villas built before 1527, like Raphael’s Villa Madama (1516)
2- Regional work completed in Verona & Venice, like Sansovino’s Biblioteca Nazionale (1536)
3 - Mannerist villas, like Giulio Romano’s Palazo Te (1527)
4 - Ancient architecture, like the Pantheon
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PALLADIAN VILLA
The Palladian Villa
- Three (3) main ideas emerge
1 - The sacred idea behind a Greek Temple front is implemented, like in the Villa Rotunda
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PALLADIAN VILLA
The Palladian Villa
- Three (3) main ideas emerge
1 - The sacred idea behind a Greek Temple front is implemented
2- The villas are arranged by a cellular floor plan, like in the Villa Rotunda
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PALLADIAN VILLA
The Palladian Villa
- Three (3) main ideas emerge
1 - The sacred idea behind a Greek Temple front is implemented
2- The villas are arranged by a cellular floor plan
3- The villas break down the traditional notion of a villa, like the break down of Sangallo’s Villa Medici
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ROMAN SPACE VERSUS GREEK SPACE
Pantheon in Rome Parthenon in Greece
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GREEK SPACE
Parthenon in Greece , 400 BC
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ROMAN SPACE
Pantheon in Rome, 1st century AD
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ROMAN SPACE
Maison Carree in Nimes, France, 16 BC
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PALLADIAN VILLA
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VILLA BARBARO, 1550’s-1560’s
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VILLA BARBARO, 1550’s-1560’s
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VILLA ROTUNDA, 1550’s
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VILLA ROTUNDA, 1550’s
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VILLA ROTUNDA, 1550’s
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VENICE, ITALY
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01 San Giorgio Maggiore
02 Il Redentore
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SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566
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SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566
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SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566
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SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566
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SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566
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IL REDENTORE, 1575-1577
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IL REDENTORE, 1575-1577
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IL REDENTORE & SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE
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IL REDENTORE, 1575-1577
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IL REDENTORE & VILLA ROTUNDA
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Andrea Palladio 1508-1580
- Questions?
ANDREA PALLADIO
