Palladio’s Vicenza
Charles Hind looks at the work of one of the most influential architects in the world, in his home city of Vicenza, northern Italy.
Next year will be the 500th anniversary of the birth of the world’s most influential architect. Some twentieth-century architects such as Le Corbusier might seem to have a better claim than Andrea Palladio (1508-80), but the Italian’s buildings and his influential book I Quattro Libri del’ Architettura (1570) have the advantage of age. In his lifetime Palladio’s opinion was sought from Constantinople to Madrid. Buildings reflecting his thoughts on architecture could be seen all over Europe in the seventeenth century and his influence had reached North America and India by the eighteenth.
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