Villas on the outskirts in Venice
The most significant part of the heritage of Palladio - he designed numerous houses in the vicinity of Venice, and Vicenza. The villas have been designed for agriculture and meet the needs of the Veneto area of the aristocracy, to invest in land. The composition of each group is strictly symmetrical - from the front garden and stairways through the main portico or arcade that precedes the front hall to the loggia, or portico opposite side of the house, went in the second garden. Column portico with pediment, in the spirit of Roman architecture attached housing rights «hramovidny» nature, thus exalted, and the identity of the owner, and that is his life. In the villas Palladio especially remarkable skill demonstrated by its ability to combine architecture and nature, transforming the landscape into the natural environment of the human environment (for the Venetians it was especially meaningful, because Venice is devoid of greenery).
Masterpiece Palladio villa is Almerik-Valmarana ( «La Rotonda» (or «Capra») in Vicenza (1551-1567, completed Vincenzo Skamotstsi) - the first secular Renaissance building, surmounted by a dome. The building is constructed in the same proportions as the golden-section-type gazebo with a round hall, crowned by a dome with skylights and located around the sides of fronts Light 6-column Ionic portico with stairs.
Palladio witty and tactfully with the cost motives Roman architecture, he studied in Rome and at a treatise Vitruviya, obygryvaya combination of columns of different heights and different orders, often combining ground floor massive columns ( «big order»), nakladyvaya porticoes and arches into simple geometric architectural volumes and those stressing the purity of form and harmony in their relations. In addition to his research in Rome, Palladio had measurements of ancient monuments in Verona, Split, Nime.
The most significant part of the heritage of Palladio - he designed numerous houses in the vicinity of Venice, and Vicenza. The villas have been designed for agriculture and meet the needs of the Veneto area of the aristocracy, to invest in land. The composition of each group is strictly symmetrical - from the front garden and stairways through the main portico or arcade that precedes the front hall to the loggia, or portico opposite side of the house, went in the second garden. Column portico with pediment, in the spirit of Roman architecture attached housing rights «hramovidny» nature, thus exalted, and the identity of the owner, and that is his life. In the villas Palladio especially remarkable skill demonstrated by its ability to combine architecture and nature, transforming the landscape into the natural environment of the human environment (for the Venetians it was especially meaningful, because Venice is devoid of greenery).
Masterpiece Palladio villa is Almerik-Valmarana ( «La Rotonda» (or «Capra») in Vicenza (1551-1567, completed Vincenzo Skamotstsi) - the first secular Renaissance building, surmounted by a dome. The building is constructed in the same proportions as the golden-section-type gazebo with a round hall, crowned by a dome with skylights and located around the sides of fronts Light 6-column Ionic portico with stairs.
Palladio witty and tactfully with the cost motives Roman architecture, he studied in Rome and at a treatise Vitruviya, obygryvaya combination of columns of different heights and different orders, often combining ground floor massive columns ( «big order»), nakladyvaya porticoes and arches into simple geometric architectural volumes and those stressing the purity of form and harmony in their relations. In addition to his research in Rome, Palladio had measurements of ancient monuments in Verona, Split, Nime.