Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the sixteenth century, modeled his designs on its Doric and Ionic columns.

In one of his best essays Mr. Sansom expresses his enthusiasm for the many country mansions designed by Andrea Palladio himself that dot the environs of Vicenza.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

The Tuscan order in Andrea Palladio, Quattro Libri di Architettura, 1570

Andrea Palladio, the famous Italian architect of the 16th century, built many mansions with plain exteriors and stunning interiors filled with frescoes.

* 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.

* August 19 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect ( b. 1508 )

* Andrea Palladio publishes I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura in Venice.

* November 30 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect ( d. 1580 )

Sebastiano Serlio ; the Regola delli cinque ordini of Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola ( 1507 – 1573 ); the Quattro libri di Architettura of Andrea Palladio, and Vincenzo Scamozzi's Idea della Architettura Universale, were followed in the 17th century by French treatises with further refined engraved models, such as Perrault's.

Padua is also the birthplace of the famous architect Andrea Palladio, whose 16th century " ville " ( country-houses ) in the area of Padua, Venice, Vicenza and Treviso are among the most beautiful of Italy and they were often copied during the 18th and 19th centuries ; and of Giovanni Battista Belzoni, adventure-man, engineer and egyptologist.

The house, which Jefferson designed, was based on the neoclassical principles described in the books of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

Palazzo facade drawn by Andrea Palladio, purchased in Italy by Inigo Jones.

The RIBA's holdings of over 330 drawings by Andrea Palladio are the largest in the world, other Europeans well represented are Jacques Gentilhatre and Antonio Visentini.

The 16th century was the time of Andrea Palladio, who left many outstanding examples of his art with palaces and villas in the city's territory, which before Palladio's passage, was arguably the most downtrodden and esthetically lacking city of the Veneto.

* Video introduction to Teatro Olimpico by Andrea Palladio

In the subsequent rebuilding work it was decided to respect the original Gothic style, despite the submission of a neo-classical alternative designs by the influential Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

The present decoration is a work by Antonio da Ponte and design by Andrea Palladio and Antonio Rusconi.

The decorations were designed by Andrea Palladio to replace that destroyed in the 1574 fire ; the wood panelling of the walls and end tribune and the carved ceiling are the work of Francesco Bello and Andrea da Faenza.

The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo.

Chiswick Villa is inspired in part by several buildings of the 16th-century Italian architects Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ) and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi ( 1552 – 1616 ).

Lord Burlington was not just restricted to the influence of Andrea Palladio as his library list at Chiswick indicates.

Three concentric relieving arches at rear of the Villa containing Venetian window s. This arrangement derives directly from drawings by Andrea Palladio in Lord Burlington's collection

This house was designed by colonial architect William Buckland and modeled on the Villa Pisani at Montagnana, Italy as depicted in Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell ' architettura (" Four Books Of Architecture ").

** Andrea Riccio, Italian sculptor and architect ( b. 1470 )

* August 25 – Andrea Orcagna, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect

Other pupils or assistants include Raffaellino del Colle, Andrea Sabbatini, Bartolommeo Ramenghi, Pellegrino Aretusi, Vincenzo Tamagni, Battista Dossi, Tommaso Vincidor, Timoteo Viti ( the Urbino painter ), and the sculptor and architect Lorenzetto ( Giulio's brother-in-law ).

* Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit Brother, baroque painter and architect.

Known as Lord Burlington, he was the famous architect who published Andrea Palladio's designs of Ancient Roman architecture and designed Chiswick House with William Kent.

Burlington may also have been influenced in his choice of octagon from the drawings of the Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio ( 1475 – 1554 ), or from Roman buildings of antiquity ( for example, Lord Burlington owned Andrea Palladio's drawings of the octagonal mausoleum at Diocletian's Palace at Split in modern Croatia ).

The architect Andrea Palladio made it clear that the Tuscan order of architecture, being the simplest of the five Roman orders, should only ever be used on the ground floor of a building as they were suitable for prisons, fortifications and amphitheatres.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city brought forth several notable intellectual figures, including Giovanni Aurispa, jurists Andrea Barbazio and Antonio Corsetto, as well as the architect Matteo Carnelivari and the minor composer Mario Capuana.

His brother Andrea introduced him to Latin and the ancient civilization, and later he studied as an architect under his uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, who was Magistrato delle Acque, a Venetian engineer who specialized in excavation.

* Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ), Italian architect

Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo ( c. 1308 – August 25, 1368 ), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence.

Andrea Pisano ( 1290 – 1348 ), also known as Andrea da Pontedera, was an Italian sculptor and architect.

The new design was projected by the architect Andrea Scala.

In the late 1550s, during a break in his work for San Sebastiano, Veronese decorated the Villa Barbaro in Maser, a newly-finished building by the architect Andrea Palladio.

* Andrea Aleksi, Albanian architect, painter and sculptor

The current LSU main campus was dedicated in 1926, and consists of more than 250 buildings constructed in the style of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and occupies a 650-acre ( 2. 6 km² ) plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Although the Olmsted firm had originally envisioned a Spanish or Mexican style design for the University, Link designed the campus with tan stucco walls, red-tiled rooftops, and extensive porticoes in an attempt to emulate the architecture of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

While initially a contract was awarded to Palladio, economic shortfalls awarded the project, still completed in a Palladian style, to the young Brescian architect Giovanni Battista Lantana, with decorative projects directed mainly by Pietro Maria Bagnadore.

Andrea Palladio ( 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580 ) was an architect active in the Republic of Venice.

The powerful Barbaros introduced Palladio to Venice, where he finally became " Proto della Serenissima " ( chief architect of the Republic of Venice ) after Jacopo Sansovino.

Exponents of Palladianism include the 18th century Venetian architect, Giacomo Leoni, who published an authoritative four-volume work on Palladio and his architectural concepts.

Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ).

It is the only existing work of colonial academic architecture that was principally designed from a plate in Andrea Palladio ’ s Quattro Libri. The house was designed by the architect William Buckland in 1773 – 74 for wealthy farmer Matthias Hammond of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

* Palladian architecture – European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ).

In its purest form it is a style principally derived from the architecture of Classical Greece and the architecture of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio.

It was designed by the architect Andrea Palladio and built as a votive church to thank God for the deliverance of the city from a major outbreak of the plague.

The Senate of the Republic of Venice commissioned the architect Andrea Palladio to design the votive church.

He was a devotee of the work of Florentine Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti, who had also been an inspiration for Andrea Palladio.

The theatre was the final design by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and was not completed until after his death.