Andrea Palladio : The Complete Illustrated Works

by BURNS, HOWARD

• ISBN13: 9780789306616
• ISBN10: 0789306611
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-12-07
• Publisher: Universe

Summary

Undoubtedly one of the most accomplished architects of the Renaissance, Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is also the most widely imitated. Drawing inspiration from classical architecture, he created harmoniously proportioned villas and palaces in the Italian Veneto region. The influence of his work was wide-ranging, inspiring stately homes across Europe and America, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Because of the extent of the impact of his work, it is difficult to determine which buildings are true Palladios those actually designed by him and completed in his lifetime. Andrea Palladio: The Complete Illustrated Works catalogs the body of work truly belonging to Palladio. All 66 works definitively attributed to Palladio are lavishly illustrated here with over 250 contemporary photographs by Pino Guidolotti, and accompanied by extended captions that provide historical and architectural references and document their current condition. The author has also included references from Palladio's famous treatise The Four Books of Architecture. With a brilliant introduction by architectural historian Howard Burns and a comprehensive bibliography of works on Palladio edited by Almut Goldhahn, this beautifully written and sumptuously illustrated compendium is a must for architectural enthusiasts and historians alike.

Author Biography

Pino Guidolotti was born in Verona in 1947. In the early 1970s he attended a set design course at the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna. His acquaintances and friends from that time turned out to be of fundamental importance for his future development as a photographer: Paolo Monti (to whom he became an assistant), Romeo Martinez in Paris, and Ernst Gombrich in London. Guidolotti's photography features subjects as varied as fashion, portraiture, sculpture, and architecture, and he has been published in major international magazines. He has also illustrated art books such as A. Rosenauer's, Donatello. L'opera completa (Milan 1993) and R. Wittkower's, Bernini (Milan 1990, London 1997).

Born in Cicenza in 1961, Guido Beltramini is the director of the Centro Internazionale de Studi di Architettura "Andrea Palladio," Vicenza, and a professor at the University of Ferrara. He has edited several works: a catalogue of drawings by the 18th-century Palladio follower Ottone Calderari (Venice 1999), the catalogue for the exhibitions on Carlo Scarpa (Milan 2000), with Kurt Foster and Paola Marini, and the special issue of the Quaderni della Scuola Superiore de Pisa dedicated to digital models in architectural studies (Pisa 2000) with Marco Gaiani. Together with Howard Burns and Marco Gaiani, he has also devised and made several CD-ROMS: Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio (1996), Andrea Palladio. Le ville (1997), Palladio and the Veneto (1999), and Palladio e Vicenza (2001).

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Guido Beltramini
Antonio Padoan
ANDREA PALLADIO THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED WORKS
Introduction
Andrea Palladio
The Creation of a Systematic, Communicable Architecture	3	(10)
Howard Burns
VICENZA
Villa Trissino at Cricoli	13	(1)
Church of Santa Maria dei Servi: Portal	14	(3)
Palazzo Civena	17	(4)
Palazzo Poiana	21	(1)
Palazzo Thiene	22	(4)
Palazzo Iseppo Porto	26	(4)
Palazzo della Ragione: Loggias	30	(15)
Palazzo Chiericati	45	(6)
Vicenza Cathedral: Dome and Side Portal	51	(1)
Casa Cogollo, or `Palladio's House'	52	(5)
Palazzo Schio: Facade	57	(1)
Palazzo Valmarana	58	(7)
Villa Almerico Capra, or `La Rotonda'	65	(3)
Palazzo Barbaran da Porto	68	(9)
Loggia del Capitanio	77	(5)
Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello	82	(5)
Palazzo Thiene-Bonin Longare	87	(3)
Arco delle Scalette	90	(3)
Valmarana Chapel	93	(4)
Church of Santa Maria Nova	97	(4)
Teatro Olimpico	101	(7)
VILLAS
Villa Godi	108	(5)
Villa Piovene	113	(2)
Villa Valmarana at Vigardolo	115	(1)
Villa Pisani at Bagnolo	116	(4)
Villa Gazzotti	120	(2)
Villa Caldogno	122	(3)
Villa Thiene	125	(2)
Villa Contarini	127	(1)
Villa Arnaldi	128	(3)
Villa Saraceno	131	(2)
Villa Angarano	133	(2)
Villa Poiana	135	(3)
Villa Chiericati	138	(5)
Villa Pisani at Montagnana	143	(3)
Villa Cornaro	146	(5)
Villa Zeno	151	(3)
Villa Badoer	154	(4)
Villa Barbaro	158	(9)
Villa Porto at Vivaro	167	(1)
Villa Thiene at Cicogna: The Barchessa	168	(3)
Villa Repeta	171	(2)
Villa Emo	173	(4)
Villa Foscari, or `La Malcontenta'	177	(3)
Villa Valmarana at Lisiera	180	(3)
Villa Forni Cerato	183	(1)
Villa Sarego	184	(4)
Villa Trissino at Meledo	188	(2)
Villa Porto at Molina di Malo	190	(4)
THE VENETIAN MAINLAND
Palazzo Dalla Torre in Verona	194	(3)
Bridge at Bassano	197	(3)
Bridge over the Tesina at Torri di Quartesolo	200	(3)
Arco Bollani in Udine	203	(1)
Palazzo Antonini in Udine	204	(7)
Palazzo Pretorio at Cividale	211	(1)
Porta Gemona at San Daniele del Friuli	212	(3)
Tempietto at Maser	215	(6)
VENICE
Church of San Pietro di Castello: Facade	221	(2)
Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore: The Refectory	223	(3)
Convent of the Carita	226	(5)
Church of San Francesco della Vigna: Facade	231	(3)
Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore: The Church	234	(6)
Restoration of Rooms in the Palazzo Ducale	240	(3)
Church of the Redentore	243	(12)
Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore: Cloister of the Cypresses	255	(1)
Church of the Zitelle	256	(3)
Bibliography	259
Almut Goldhahn