Andrea Palladio

30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580

Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic, widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture. His villas, palaces, and churches in and around Vicenza and Venice, together with his treatise The Four Books of Architecture, gave rise to the enduring Palladian style. His Villa La Rotonda and the church of San Giorgio Maggiore are among his most celebrated works.

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Born in Padua, Republic of Venice
30 November 1508

Andrea di Pietro della Gondola was born in Padua, the son of a miller.

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Apprenticed to a stonecutter in Padua
c. 1521

At thirteen Andrea was apprenticed to the stonecutter Bartolomeo Cavazza, a contract he soon broke by fleeing to Vicenza.

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Moved to Vicenza and joined the masons' guild
1524

Andrea settled in Vicenza, enrolling in the guild of masons and stonecutters and working in the Pedemuro workshop.

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Married Allegradonna
1534

Palladio married Allegradonna, a carpenter's daughter, with whom he had five children.

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Taken up by humanist Gian Giorgio Trissino
c. 1538

The poet and scholar Gian Giorgio Trissino became his mentor, gave him the classical name Palladio, and took him to Rome to study ancient architecture.

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Won the commission to rebuild the Basilica Palladiana
1549

Vicenza's council chose Palladio's design of two-tiered classical loggias to encase the medieval Palazzo della Ragione, the commission that established his reputation.

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Began the church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice
1566

Palladio designed the Benedictine church of San Giorgio Maggiore on its island facing Saint Mark's, one of his masterpieces of ecclesiastical architecture.

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Began Villa La Rotonda
c. 1566

Palladio began his most famous villa, the domed and perfectly symmetrical Villa Almerico Capra called La Rotonda, outside Vicenza.

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Published The Four Books of Architecture
1570

Palladio published I quattro libri dell'architettura in Venice, the treatise that carried his principles across Europe and to the Americas.

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Died while the Teatro Olimpico was under construction
19 August 1580

Palladio died on 19 August 1580, months after beginning the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, which was completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi.

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