His first commissions were for villas and a palace not far from Vicenza in around 1540. The next year, he made the first of three visit Rome, where he absorbed the renaissance works of artists such as Bramente and Raphael. His first major commission came in 1548, to design the facade of the Town Hall in Vicenza. Thereafter, he was forever busy, designing palaces of stunning grandeur and villas of exquiste simplicity, in and around Vicenza.

He designed many residences and public buildings as well. The best known of these are the Barbarano, Chieregati, Tiene, Porto, and Valmarana palaces and the Villa Capri, or Villa Rotonda. From about 1560 to 1580 he built several churches in Venice, Italy.
Palladio was also the first to design houses with the pedimented porticos of Roman temples- formal porches with a shallow triangular gable supported by a row of columns. Palladio used arches supported on slender columns with narrow rectangular spaces between the columns. The arrangement allows the piers between the arches to be narrow, rather than wide and massive, and allows more light to pass into the main building.

From 1570, Palladio concentrated on designing churches and monastic buildings in Venice. However, both of his sons died in1572 and he thereafter lived the life of a recluse. He himself died in1580, leaving several commissions unfulfied.

LOGGIA DEL CAPITANATO
Vicenza
Commissioned 1571
The open, arched loggia is a common element of civic life in Italian communes. Palladio's Loggia del Capitanato is more elaborate than usual, with a piano nobile over the arched meeting place. In its present stage the loggia is incomplete, missing at least two additional bays. The whole facade is treated as a triumphal arch. Its all over stucco decorations represent the victory of Christendom over the Turks at Lepanto in 1571.

CLOISTER
S. Giorgia Maggiore
Venice
Begun 1566
Designed on the framework of an older cloister, Palladio's airy cloister has an open loggia gracefully supported by paired columns. It was not completed until after his death.
 

REDENTORE
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A religious church building located in Venice, Italy. It is built in 1577.

VILLA LA MALCONTENTA
The facade of the La Malcontenta has influenced domestic architecture. Also known as Villa Foscari, the villa has a Roman temple portico which serves as a visual focus in this simple, rectangular structure.

Michelangelo            Palladio            Bramante             Brunelleschi

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