ARCH 242: BUILDING HISTORY II History of the profession: Renaissance & baroque Architecture 01
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 - Il Redentore 02
ANDREA PALLADIO Andrea Palladio 1508-1580 - born in Padua, Italy near Venice - projects in & near Vicenza as well as Venice 03
LOCATIONS IN ITALY Vicenza Padua Venice Map of Italy 04
SACK OF ROME, 1527 The Sack of Rome in 1527 by Johannes Lingelbach 05
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 06
PALLADIO IN ROME Rome in 1551 07
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 08
P A LLA D I O S T H E M AT I C S Prevedari Etching, Bramante Pantheon Drawing, Palladio 09
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 10
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 11
VICENZA, ITALY 02 01 Palazzo della Ragione 02 Villa Barbaro 03 Villa Rotunda 01 03 12
PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE, begun 1548 13
PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE, begun 1548 14
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) 15
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) 16
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) 17
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 18
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 19
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 20
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 21
ROMAN SPACE VERSUS GREEK SPACE Pantheon in Rome Parthenon in Greece 22
GREEK SPACE Parthenon in Greece, 400 BC 23
ROMAN SPACE Pantheon in Rome, 1st century AD 24
ROMAN SPACE Maison Carree in Nimes, France, 16 BC 25
PALLADIAN VILLA 26
VILLA BARBARO, 1550 s-1560 s 27
VILLA BARBARO, 1550 s-1560 s 28
VILLA ROTUNDA, 1550 s 29
VILLA ROTUNDA, 1550 s 30
VILLA ROTUNDA, 1550 s 31
VENICE, ITALY 01 San Giorgio Maggiore 02 Il Redentore 01 02 32
SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566 33
SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566 34
SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566 35
SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566 36
SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, 1566 37
IL REDENTORE, 1575-1577 38
IL REDENTORE, 1575-1577 39
IL REDENTORE & SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE 40
IL REDENTORE, 1575-1577 41
IL REDENTORE & VILLA ROTUNDA 42
ANDREA PALLADIO Andrea Palladio 1508-1580 - Questions? 43