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

* 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.

* Andrea Palladio, architect

* 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

Of his pupils, the most famous were Antonio Stradivari and Andrea Guarneri, the first of the Guarneri family of violin makers.

Under Francesco II the famous Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna worked in Mantua as court painter, producing some of his most outstanding works.

Menuhin used a number of famous violins including the Giovanni Bussetto 1680, the Giovanni Grancino 1695, the Guarneri filius Andrea 1703, the Soil Stradivarius, the Prince Khevenhüller 1733 Stradivari, the Guarneri del Gesù 1739, and the Lord Wilton 1742 Guarneri del Gesù.

Among his 300 paintings by moderns, most notably, he owned Leonardo's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, The Family of the Virgin by Andrea del Sarto, the two famous Bacchanales of Nicolas Poussin, as well as paintings by Veronese and Titian, and Diana at the Bath by Rubens, for which he was so glad to pay the artist's heirs 3, 000 écus, that he made a gift to Rubens ' widow of a diamond-encrusted watch.

Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.

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.

The Decca Label Group is the US label whereas the London-based Decca Music Group runs the international classical and pop releases by such world famous performers as Andrea Bocelli and Hayley Westenra.

It has also launched the careers of many very famous Italian singers, including Andrea Bocelli, Paola e Chiara, Giorgia, Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti, and Gigliola Cinquetti.

On September 15, Dion made an appearance at the free concert of world famous tenor, Andrea Bocelli, in Central Park in New York.

His sons Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, and his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna, were also famous painters.

The Star Trek character in the rear, Andrea, played by Sherry Jackson, is wearing one of Theiss ' most famous costumes.

His brother, Andrea de Chirico, who became famous as Alberto Savinio, was also a writer and a painter.

In Venice, composers such as Andrea Gabrieli continued to write madrigals in the classic tradition, but with the bright, open, polyphonic textures for which he was famous in his motets and other works.

Some of the famous Croatian Renaissance artists lived and worked in other countries, like the brothers Francesco and Luciano Laurana, miniaturist Giulio Clovio and famous mannerist painter Andrea Schiavone ( teacher of El Greco ).

In 1552 the Ottoman fleet under the command of Turgut Reis ( known as Dragut in the West ) defeated the Spanish fleet of Emperor Charles V under the command of the famous Genoese admiral Andrea Doria near Ponza.

However, with the coming of the Renaissance and the Baroque style, and revived interest in art and architecture of antiquity, barrel vaulting was re-introduced on a truly grandiose scale, and employed in the construction of many famous buildings and churches, such as Basilica di Sant ' Andrea di Mantova by Leone Battista Alberti, San Giorgio Maggiore by Andrea Palladio, and perhaps most glorious of all, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, where a huge barrel vault spans the 27 meter wide nave.

Another famous inhabitant of this town has Odorico D ' Andrea.

* 1925 – Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal

* 1972 – Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

* 1983 – Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player

Giovanni d ' Andrea or Johannes Andreæ, ( c. 1270 / 1275 – 1348 ) was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages.

* 1956 – 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

* 1984 – Andrea Raggi, Italian footballer

* 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter ( d. 1530 )

* 1973 – Andrea Scanavacca, Italian rugby player

Anarchist communism as a coherent, modern economic-political philosophy was first formulated in the Italian section of the First International by Carlo Cafiero, Emilio Covelli, Errico Malatesta, Andrea Costa and other ex-Mazzinian Republicans.

* 1981 – Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer

* 1976 – Andrea Lo Cicero, Italian rugby player

* 1988 – Andrea Catellani, Italian footballer

* 1964 – Andrea Montermini, Italian race car driver

* 1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer ( d. 1801 )

* 1979 – Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player

* 1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter ( b. 1754 )

* 1985 – Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player

Italian historian Andrea Del Col estimates that out of 51, 000 — 75, 000 cases judged by Inquisition in Italy after 1542 around 1, 250 resulted in a death sentence.

* 1981 – Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer

* 1970 – Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter

* Andrea of Grosseto, Italian writer