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Article: Palladio, Andrea, and Palladianism
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PALLADIO, ANDREA, AND PALLADIANISM
PALLADIO, ANDREA, AND PALLADIANISM.
Andrea Palladio (1508
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1580) was born Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, but he was given the name Palladio by an early patron and mentor. Despite his modest origins and unpromising apprenticeship as a stonemason, he went on to become one of the leading architects of the Renaissance and arguably the most influential builder of all time. By Renaissance standards, Palladio was something of an anomaly. He built nothing in Rome or Florence and comparatively little in Venice, most of his work being located in Vicenza and its surrounding countryside. Seemingly indifferent to the religious and political strife of the ...