Piero Andrea-Palladio-was born in Padua in 1508. The son of a miller, by the thirteen years he began as an apprentice with an architect and engraver, and had already been spent on study d 'architecture, after he was accepted into the guild of masons. In 1538 was the first meeting with Count Giangiorgio Trissimo, which will become a distinguished humaniste his patron, who also helped him in 'entry to the aristocratic circles of Vicenza, the fact that it was essential to find assignments of projects' architecture. This extraordinary man gave him a great help to make a study of 'contemporary architecture and Roman, and together they made two trips to Rome to further his knowledge, and even baptized him according to the goddess Pallas Palladium Atenea patron of the arts. In 1540 he obtained the professional title of 'architect.
Its activities include the villas of the Veneto, the 'religious architecture of the palaces of Venice and Vicenza. This
Palazzo della Ragione, also known by the name of Basilica, is located in Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza. A first 's eye we see a building so transparent, that we do not know where it ends where it begins and built the square, an 'inter-foreign-procedure. It is a clean formed by the repetitions in horizontal and vertical alignment of a serliana that a large central arch with two other openings to the architrave lesser sides. Repetitions, however, this does not do a 'bare work, it clears the setting a pace and lets you breathe becoming an urban building in the sense of its successful integration into the square. But this
serliana-called after-Palladian Palladio reason was plain. His genius was to add depth in double columns inside the lodges, making it a special wall full of space.
Around to 'ancient building of the Palazzo della Ragione, Palladio designed these beautiful lodges, and ciara is perceived as the sides of the roof does not rest on them. Its construction had a long and complicated history that begins with 's use of the old palace of the XV century, after the purpose of making an arcade in the ground floor overlooking the square. Various consultations were made to the famous architects of 'era.
We end here with an invitation for a walk to the Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, walk on the lodges and even a coffee ...
soon. Arch
Robert Stener
