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