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.

Another source of his inspiration were drawings he collected, some drawings of Palladio himself, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and many more of Inigo Jones ' pupil John Webb, which Kent published in 1727 ( although a date of 1736 is generally accepted ) as Some Designs of Mr Inigo Jones ... with Some Additional Designs that were by Kent and Burlington.

* Basilica Palladiana, centrally located in Vicenza's Piazza dei Signori, of which Palladio himself said that it might stand comparison with any similar work of antiquity ;

Another source of his inspiration were drawings he collected, including those of Palladio himself, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and his pupil John Webb.

According to James Lees-Milne, its first appearance in Britain was in the remodeled wings of Burlington House, London, where the immediate source was actually in Inigo Jones's designs for Whitehall Palace rather than drawn from Palladio himself.

Flitcroft's designs, while Palladian in nature, would not be recognised by Palladio himself.

On the frontispiece of his edition of Palladio, Leoni titled himself " Architect to his most serene Highness the Elector Palatine.

In a true Palladian house ( one villa designed by Palladio himself ), the central portion behind the portico would contain the principal rooms, while the lower flanking wings were domestic offices usually leading to terminating pavilions which would often be agricultural in use.

This last theatre was designed by Palladio himself, for the Compagnia della Calza.

The very elegant curvilinear barchesse are the only ones that were actually realised by Palladio from the many projected ( for example, those for the Villa Mocenigo on the Brenta, the Villa Thiene at Cicogna or the Villa Trissino at Meledo ) and their shape — as Palladio himself writes — recalls arms opening to receive the visitor: the relevant antique source was very probably the exedrae of the Temple of Augustus in Rome.

Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States, was a keen admirer of Palladio and once referred to the book as " the Bible ".

By this time the palladian style had evolved further, and the strict rules of mathematical ratio and axis dictated by Palladio had been all but abandoned, this subsequent evolution is generally referred to as Georgian architecture.

To reinforce this link two full-length statues of Palladio and Jones by the celebrated Flemish-born sculptor John Michael Rysbrack ( 1694 – 1770 ) are positioned in front of these sections of wall.

Palladio succeeded in uniting within one effective synthesis these dual meanings, joining the majestic manor house to the two barchesse ( farm wings ) bent into semicircles, which screen the stables and other agricultural annexes.

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

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.

Its prominent position on the Canale della Giudecca gave Palladio the opportunity to design a facade inspired by the Parthenon of Athens and enhanced by being placed on a wide plinth.

There are many ancient and beautiful villas in the countryside, a few of them from Palladio, the main ones being Villa Contarini ( in Piazzola sul Brenta ) and Villa Barbarigo ( in Valsanzibio ).

The plan for Prior Park was to construct five buildings along three sides of a dodecagon matching the sweep of the head of the valley, with the main building being flanked by elongated wings based on designs by Andrea Palladio.

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

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.

In the later 16th century in the northeastern Italian Peninsula the Palladian Villas of the Veneto, designed by Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ), were built in Vicenza in the Republic of Venice ( Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia ).

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.

Not until two generations had passed did Leonardo di Alvise Emo commission Palladio to build a new villa in Fanzolo.

* Villa Badoer in the CISA ( Centro internazionale di studi di architettura A. Palladio ) website ( source for the palladian project )

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

The most significant of the architectural works were: Vincenzo Scamozzi's L ’ Idea dell ’ Architettura Universale ; Sebastiano Serlio's Sette Libri d ' Architettura ; Domenico Fontana's Della transportatione dell ' obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V ; Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus ; Giacomo Leoni's The Architecture of A. Palladio, in Four Books ; William Kent's The Designs of Inigo Jones and Robert Wood's The ruins of Palmyra.

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

URW Palladio L, another similar typeface is available, this time by URW ( Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber — from the founders ' names now retitled URW ++).

* Villa Contarini, at Piazzola sul Brenta, built in 1546 by Palladio and enlarged in the following centuries, is the most important.

When Benjamin Disraeli, future British Prime Minister, visited the city in 1830, he described it as " a city of palaces built by gentlemen for gentlemen ," and remarked that " Valletta equals in its noble architecture, if it does not excel, any capital in Europe ," and in other letters called it " comparable to Venice and Cádiz " and " full of palaces worthy of 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.

Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare, designed by Palladio and built by Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vicenza is home to twenty-three buildings designed by Palladio.

* Santa Corona ( 1260 ) was built by the Dominicans after the death of Ezzelino, and is pictured by Montagna ( The Magdelene ) and Bellini ( Baptism of Christ ); it also hosts the Valmarana chapel by Palladio ;

* 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.

These neo-antique buildings were inspired as much by the architecture of Raphael and Giulio Romano as by Palladio.