Iseppo-Porto Palace, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Palazzo Porto is a palazzo built by Andrea Palladio in Contrà Porti, Vicenza, Italy. It is one of two palaces in the city designed by Palladio for members of the Porto family. Commissioned by the noble Iseppo da Porto, just married (about 1544), this building had a rather long designing stage and a longer and troublesome realization, partially unfinished. Since 1994 UNESCO has been included the palazzo, with other examples of palladian architecture in Vicenza, in a World Heritage Site City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. It is very probable that Iseppo (Giuseppe) Porto's decision to undertake construction of a great palace in the Contrà (Contrada) dei Porti was taken to emulate the edifice that his brothers-in-law Adriano and Marcantonio Thiene had begun to erect, in 1542, only a stone's throw away. It is also possible that it was Iseppo's very marriage to Livia Thiene, in the first half of the 1540s, which provided the concrete occasion for summoning Andrea Palladio. Allied with the Thiene, the Porto were one of the city's rich and powerful families, and the palaces of the family's various branches were ranked along the Contrada which today still bears their name. Iseppo was an influential personality, with various responsibilities in the public administration of the city, responsibilities which on more than one occasion were intertwined with the assignments entrusted to Palladio. Relations between the two must very probably have been closer than between patron and architect, if we consider that thirty years after the project for Iseppo's city palace Palladio designed and began to build a great villa for him at Molina di Malo, subsequently never completed. The two friends died in the same year, 1580. The palace was inhabitable from December 1549, though less than half the façade was standing and would only be completed three years later, in 1552. Numerous autograph drawings by Palladio record the complex design process. They show that right from the beginning Palladio planned for two distinct, residential blocks, one to lie along the street and the other contiguous to the back wall of the courtyard. In the Quattro libri dell'architettura (1570) the two blocks are interconnected by a majestic courtyard with enormous Composite columns: this is quite clearly a re-elaboration of the original idea in the interests of publication. Compared with the Palazzo Civena, only built a few years earlier, the Palazzo Porto fully illustrates the extent of Palladio's evolution after the journey to Rome in 1541 and his acquaintance with both antique and contemporary architecture. The Bramantean model of Palazzo Caprini is here reinterpreted, with Palladio observing the Vicentine custom of living on the ground floor, which is higher as a result. The splendid, four-columned atrium represents Palladio's reinterpretation of Vitruvian spaces, but one where traditional Vicentine typologies also survive. The two rooms to the left of the atrium were frescoed by Paolo Veronese and Domenico Brusasorzi, while the stuccoes are by Bartolomeo Ridolfi. On the palace attic, the statues of Iseppo and his son Leonida, in antique Roman garb, keep watch over the entrance of visitors to their house.
Palladio Workshop 1993: Palazzo Porto Breganze, Piazza del Castello, Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare
Harvard GSD Palladio Workshop, 1993
Prof. Howard Burns + Prof. William Mitchell
(Original Hi8 recording by Ti-wei Shih+Georg+Wade Hokoda, digitized by TN, uploaded by DT)
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Palladio Workshop 1993: Palazzo Porto Breganze (part 2: on site)
Harvard GSD Palladio Workshop, 1993
Prof. Howard Burns + Prof. William Mitchell
(Original Hi8 recording by Ti-wei Shih, digitized by TN, uploaded by DT)
in Piazza Castello, Vicenza
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Porto Palace, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Palazzo Porto is a palazzo built by Andrea Palladio in Contrà Porti, Vicenza, Italy. It is one of two palaces in the city designed by Palladio for members of the Porto family. Commissioned by the noble Iseppo da Porto, this building had a rather long designing stage and a longer and troublesome realization, partially unfinished. Since 1994 UNESCO has been included the palazzo, with other examples of palladian architecture in Vicenza, in a World Heritage Site City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. It is very probable that Iseppo (Giuseppe) Porto's decision to undertake construction of a great palace in the Contrà (Contrada) dei Porti was taken to emulate the edifice that his brothers-in-law Adriano and Marcantonio Thiene had begun to erect, in 1542, only a stone's throw away. It is also possible that it was Iseppo's very marriage to Livia Thiene, in the first half of the 1540s, which provided the concrete occasion for summoning Andrea Palladio.
Allied with the Thiene, the Porto were one of the city's rich and powerful families, and the palaces of the family's various branches were ranked along the Contrada which today still bears their name. Iseppo was an influential personality, with various responsibilities in the public administration of the city, responsibilities which on more than one occasion were intertwined with the assignments entrusted to Palladio. Relations between the two must very probably have been closer than between patron and architect, if we consider that thirty years after the project for Iseppo's city palace Palladio designed and began to build a great villa for him at Molina di Malo, subsequently never completed. The two friends died in the same year, 1580. The palace was inhabitable from December 1549, though less than half the façade was standing and would only be completed three years later, in 1552. Numerous autograph drawings by Palladio record the complex design process. They show that right from the beginning Palladio planned for two distinct, residential blocks, one to lie along the street and the other contiguous to the back wall of the courtyard. In the Quattro libri dell'architettura (1570) the two blocks are interconnected by a majestic courtyard with enormous Composite columns: this is quite clearly a re-elaboration of the original idea in the interests of publication. The statues of Iseppo and his son Leonida in the attic
Compared with the Palazzo Civena, only built a few years earlier, the Palazzo Porto fully illustrates the extent of Palladio's evolution after the journey to Rome in 1541 and his acquaintance with both antique and contemporary architecture. The Bramantean model of Palazzo Caprini is here reinterpreted, with Palladio observing the Vicentine custom of living on the ground floor, which is higher as a result. The splendid, four-columned atrium represents Palladio's reinterpretation of Vitruvian spaces, but one where traditional Vicentine typologies also survive. The two rooms to the left of the atrium were frescoed by Paolo Veronese and Domenico Brusasorzi, while the stuccoes are by Bartolomeo Ridolfi. On the palace attic, the statues of Iseppo and his son Leonida, in antique Roman garb, keep watch over the entrance of visitors to their house.
Italy Travel - Amazing Vicenza
Vicenza is a Mecca for those who love great architecture. Considered to be Palladio's home it boasts several of his greatest works. We were able to visit these important sights:
Palazzo Chiericati
1550 Andrea Palladio combined town palace & suburban villa
(once on river harbor) now Vicenza Civic Museum
Teatro Olimpico
1580 Andrea Palladio, completed by son Silla.
Stage scenery Vicenzo Scamozzi
Casa Cogollo
1559 Andrea Palladio, exterior façade by A.P. massive, classical
Loggia del Captaniato,1565 Andrea Palladio
Completed 20 years after Basilica, (stands directly opposite)
Palladian Basilica
1549 Andrea Palladio, façade of medieval building,
double order of classical loggias
Pallazo Iseppo da Porto
1544 Andrea Palladio, like most in-town Palladian villas, a remodel, new plans forced into existing footprints
Several Palazzi of Venetian Gothic style
Dome & Portal of Cathedral
Dome: 1565 Andrea Palladio
North portal added 1575
Gothic façade remains
Palazzo Porto Breganze
1571 Andrea Palladio, incomplete first of 3 proposed
segments, building is distinct departure from more formal
Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare
1572 Vicenzo Scamozzi based on designs by Andrea Palladio
blend of villa & public building features
Loggia Valmarana,
16th century Giardino Salvi, ascribed to Palladio by unesco,
(despite uncertainty)
Villa la Rotunda
1566 Andrea Palladio temple-villa, Palladio's icon,
principles taken in part from Roman Pantheon
Villa Valmarana Ai Nani
1669, 1720, Franceso Muttoni, frescoes by Tiepolo 1757,
stables, guest house rival actual villa
Palladio Workshop 1993: Palazzo Porto Breganze (part 1: from piazza)
Harvard GSD Palladio Workshop, 1993
Prof. Howard Burns + Prof. William Mitchell
(Original Hi8 recording by Ti-wei Shih, digitized by TN, uploaded by DT)
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Vicenza - Palladio Museum a Palazzo Barbarano
Palazzo Barbarano o Barbaran Da Porto è un edificio realizzato a Vicenza fra il 1570 e il 1575 dall'architetto Andrea Palladio. È attualmente la sede del Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (CISA) e del Palladio Museum. Con il Palladio Museum gli studiosi raccolti nel Centro palladiano raccontano ad un largo pubblico le proprie ricerche nel mentre si stanno svolgendo; in particolare - ma non esclusivamente - quelle su Andrea Palladio. Gruppi di studiosi lavorano su progetti di ricerca che diventano i temi delle stanze del museo, ognuna delle quali ha tendenzialmente la durata di un anno sulla base di un programma triennale.
Non è il mausoleo di un eroe morto, è piuttosto un luogo dove far crescere una cultura dell'architettura, lontano dalle ciniche logiche della professione, che consumano saperi senza produrne di nuovi. Il Palladio Museum lavora su Palladio, ma senza attualizzarlo, e men che meno proporlo come modello formale per l'oggi. Indaga il passato con gli strumenti della filologia e attenzione ai contesti, indispensabili per cercare di comprendere un mondo sfumato e lontano, e al tempo stesso vicinissimo e molto concreto, ogni volta che camminiamo fra palazzi, ville o chiese costruite secoli fa. La missione del Palladio Museum è leggere alla radice temi e concetti significativi anche nel nostro presente, rappresentandoli e discutendoli con l'orizzonte di creare una piattaforma culturale per l'architettura di domani.
Finora i progetti di ricerca hanno riguardato la comunicazione, la tecnologia, il rapporto con l'economia e con il paesaggio, il disegno di organismi complessi. Essi sono temi chiave per Palladio, e sono alla base della concezione dei Quattro Libri così come dei progetti urbani, delle ville in campagna e delle chiese veneziane; al tempo stesso sono temi di una agenda contemporanea.
Andrea Palladio Statue, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 - 19 August 1580) was an Italian architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture. All of his buildings are located in what was the Venetian Republic, but his teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise, The Four Books of Architecture, gained him wide recognition. The city of Vicenza, with its 23 buildings designed by Palladio, and 24 Palladian Villas of the Veneto are listed by UNESCO as part of a World Heritage Site named City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. Palladio's architecture was not dependent on expensive materials, which must have been an advantage to his more financially pressed clients. Many of his buildings are of brick covered with stucco. Stuccoed brickwork was always used in his villa designs in order to portray his interpretations of the Roman villa typology. In the later part of his career, Palladio was chosen by powerful members of Venetian society for numerous important commissions. His success as an architect is based not only on the beauty of his work, but also for its harmony with the culture of his time. His success and influence came from the integration of extraordinary aesthetic quality with expressive characteristics that resonated with his client's social aspirations. His buildings served to communicate, visually, their place in the social order of their culture. This powerful integration of beauty and the physical representation of social meanings is apparent in three major building types: the urban palazzo, the agricultural villa, and the church. Relative to his trips to Rome, Palladio developed three main palace types by 1556. In 1550, the Palazzo Chiericati was completed. The proportions for the building were based on musical ratios for adjacent rooms. The building was centralized by a tripartite division of a series of columns or colonnades. In 1552, the Palazzo Iseppo Porto located in Vicenza was rebuilt incorporating the Roman Renaissance element for façades. A colonnade of Corinthian columns surrounded a main court. The Palazzo Antonini in Udine, constructed in 1556, had a centralized hall with four columns and service spaces placed relatively toward one side. He uses styles of incorporating the six columns, supported by pediments, into the walls as part of the façade. This technique had been applied in his villa designs as well. Palladio experimented with the plan of the Palazzo Iseppo Porto by incorporating it into the Palazzo Thiene. It was an earlier project from 1545 to 1550 and remained uncompleted due to elaborate elevations in his designs. He used Mannerist elements such as stucco surface reliefs and large columns, often extending two stories high. In his urban structures he developed a new improved version of the typical early Renaissance palazzo (exemplified by the Palazzo Strozzi). Adapting a new urban palazzo type created by Bramante in the House of Raphael, Palladio found a powerful expression of the importance of the owner and his social position. The main living quarters of the owner on the second level were clearly distinguished in importance by use of a pedimented classical portico, centered and raised above the subsidiary and utilitarian ground level (illustrated in the Palazzo Porto and the Palazzo Valmarana). The tallness of the portico was achieved by incorporating the owner's sleeping quarters on the third level, within a giant two-story classical colonnade, a motif adapted from Michelangelo's Capitoline buildings in Rome. The elevated main floor level became known as the piano nobile, and is still referred to as the first floor in Europe.
SGUARDI SUL VENETO 23-10-12 Palazzo Barbaran da Porto
Vicenza - Nella puntata di oggi di Sguardi sul Veneto, andremo a visitare palazzo Barbaran da Porto, a Vicenza, sede del CISA Andrea Palladio, del quale parleremo con il direttore Guido Beltramini e del Palladio Museum, curato dall'architetto Alessandro Scandurra. (Elena Mattiuzzo)
Da Porto-Colleoni Palace, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Palazzo Porto Colleoni dates back to around 1460, it originally had a frescoed facade with geometric decorations, frescoes that were removed during restoration work around the year 1930.
Once through the entrance hall, one of the few gardens in the historic center of Vicenza opens onto which an architraved loggia overlooks.
In this courtyard in 1539, Sebastiano Serlio commissioned by the Gentlemen of the Compagnia della Calza, erected a temporary wooden theater, characteristic of the first half of the sixteenth century.
Based on the drawings of scenes, contained in the Treatise of this architect, we can ideally reconstruct his very important work from Vicenza, of which unfortunately every trace was lost.
Palladio Museum, Barbarano Palace, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto is a palazzo in Vicenza, Italy designed in 1569 and built between 1570 and 1575 by Andrea Palladio. Since 1994 the palace is part of the City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In the palace is located the Palladio Museum and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (CISA). The sumptuous residence realised between 1570 and 1575 for the Vicentine noble Montano Barbarano is the only great city palace that Andrea Palladio succeeded in executing in its entirety. In his History of Vicenza of 1591, Iacopo Marzari records Montano Barbarano as a man “of belles lettres and most excellent musician”. Various flutes figure in the 1592 inventory of the palace, confirming the existence of an intensive musical activity there.
At least three different autograph projects survive, preserved in London, which document alternative hypotheses for the building’s plan, all quite different from the actual one and testimony to a complex design process. Barbarano, in fact, requested Palladio to respect the existence of various houses belonging to the family and already existing on the area of the new palace. Moreover, once the project was finalised Barbarano acquired a further house adjoining the property, which resulted in the asymmetrical positioning of the entrance portal. In any case, the constraints imposed by the site and by a practical patron became the occasion for courageous and refined solutions: Palladio’s intervention is magisterial, elaborating upon a sophisticated project for “restructuring” which blended the diverse pre-existing structures into a unified edifice. In 1998, after a twenty-year restoration, the Palace has been opened to the public. The exhibition activities began in March 1999. On the ground floor, a magnificent four-columned atrium welds together the two pre-existing building lots. In realising the scheme, Palladio was called upon to resolve two problems: one statical, how to support the floor of the great hall on the piano nobile; the other compositional, how to restore a symmetrical appearance to interiors compromised by the oblique course of the perimeter walls from the pre-existing houses. Departing from the model of the wings of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome, Palladio divided the interior into three aisles, placing centrally four Ionic columns which allowed the reduction of the span of the central cross-vaults, set against lateral barrel vaults. He thus achieved a very statically efficient framework capable of bearing the floor of the hall above without any difficulty. The central columns were then tied to the perimeter walls by fragments of rectilinear entablature, which absorb the irregularities of the atrium plan: in this way he realised a sort of system of “serlianas”, a stratagem conceptually similar to that of the Basilica loggias. Palladio even adopted the unusual type of Ionic capital derived from the Temple of Saturn in the Forum Romanum because it permitted him to mask the slight but significant rotations necessary to align the columns and engaged columns. To decorate the palace, in several campaigns Montano employed some of the greatest artists of his time: Giovanni Battista Zelotti (who had already intervened in the interiors of Palladio’s Villa Emo at Fanzolo), Anselmo Canera and Andrea Vicentino; the stuccoes were entrusted to Lorenzo Rubini (who contemporaneously executed the external decorations of the Loggia del Capitanio) and, after his death in 1574, to his son Agostino. The net result was a sumptuous palace capable of rivalling the residences of the Thiene, the Porto and of the Valmarana, a palace which permitted its patron to represent himself to the city as a ranking member of the Vicentine cultural élite.
Visiting Italy: Palladio Museum, Vicenza
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Palladio Workshop 1993: Palazzo Iseppo da Porto
Harvard GSD Palladio Workshop, 1993
Prof. Howard Burns + Prof. William Mitchell
(Original Hi8 recording by Ti-wei Shih, digitized by TN, uploaded by DT)
Contra dei Porti
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Palazzo Barbaran (Vicenza)
Palazzo Barbaran (Vicenza). Cortile interno
Places to see in ( Vicenza - Italy )
Places to see in ( Vicenza - Italy )
Vicenza is a city in the Veneto region of northeast Italy. It’s known for the elegant buildings designed by the 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio. These include the Palladian Basilica and the Palazzo Chiericati, now home to an art gallery. Nearby, also by Palladio, the Teatro Olimpico replicates a classic outdoor theater, indoors. On the outskirts of town, the hilltop Villa La Rotonda has 4 identical facades.
Vicenza is located in the Veneto region of Italy, in its own province (the Provincia di Vicenza). It's a medium-sized town, with a population of 110,000. There has been a settlement here right back into the depths of history; remains of the Roman town can still be seen. Later, after the barbarian invasions which repeatedly devastated this part of Italy, it became a significant town, ruled at different times by various greater powers. For several centuries it was governed by Venice; then Napoleon, then the Austrians. In 1866 it became part of the new Kingdom of Italy.
Vicenza was a prosperous town under Venetian rule, and its pride was demonstrated in fine architecture, much of which still survives. Its 'unique appearance,' largely owing to the work of influential sixteenth-century architect Andrea Palladio, has led to the town's designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. After Palladio, Vicenza is most famous for its trade in precious metals, it's also known as the 'City of gold'. It's a lovely town to visit; with a beautiful, compact town centre and attractive villas and viewpoints in the hills a short walk away.
The railway station is to the south-west of the town centre; most of Vicenza's attractions are clustered closely together inside the old town walls. Walking straight along Viale Roma from the railway station, you'll pass two bus stops for the number 8 - if you are planning a trip to the villas just outside town, check the latest timetable displayed here. Soon you'll arrive outside the old town gate, Porta Castello, but first you can visit the Giardino Salvi just outside the gateway: a shady park, ornamented with statues and the Palladian Loggia Valmarana, which is dramatically reflected in dark waters.
Just inside the gateway lies a very convenient self-service restaurant, Self Pause, which is a cheap and quick place to fill up before exploring the town centre. Around Vicenza you can admire many grand buildings by Palladio and his followers. The Italian word palazzo usually means any large building rather than a palace; but many of Vicenza's palazzi do merit the grander translation. Some of the town's buildings are medieval, with several in the Venetian Gothic style, but the majority date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They line the narrow lanes of Vicenza's town centre; which are called contra, a local word for 'street'.
As soon as you're inside the Porta you find yourself among the town's great buildings. One of the most curious is off to your right. Designed by Palladio, Palazzo Porto Breganze was never finished and stands in an abbreviated form. In front of you is the Corso Andrea Palladio, the centre's main thoroughfare, lined with smart shops and cafes. Some of Vicenza's grandest palazzi lie on Contra Porti, off to the left.
Piazza dei Signori, a few yards south of Corso Andrea Palladio, is the heart of town. It is dominated by two of Vicenza's most striking landmarks, the Basilica Palladiana, the town's medieval law courts, with an imposing later facade by Palladio, and the adjacent Torre di Piazza, a tall and skinny tower. Right in the long midday shadow cast by the tower you'll find one of Vicenza's tourist information offices, where you can pick up a town map, leaflets about local events and attractions and any advice you may need. A second office is located not far away, by the Teatro Olimpico.
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VIAGGIANDO 13-10-12 VICENZA PALAZZO CHIERICATI
In questa puntata Piero Brazzale ci porta a visitare Palazzo Chiericati a Vicenza.
Chiericati Palace, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
The Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio. Palladio was asked to design and build the palazzo by Count Girolamo Chiericati. The architect started building the palace in 1550, and some further work was completed under the patronage of Chiericati's son, Valerio. However, the palazzo was not fully finished until about 1680, possibly by Carlo Borella. Palladio also designed a country home, the Villa Chiericati, for the family. The palazzo was built in an area called piazza dell'Isola, which housed the wood and cattle market. At that time, it was an islet surrounded by the Retrone and Bacchiglione streams, and to protect the structure from the frequent floods, Palladio designed it on an elevated position: the entrance could be accessed by a triple Classic-style staircase. The palazzo's principal façade is composed of three bays, the central bay projecting slightly. The two end bays have logge on the piano nobile level, while the central bay is closed. The façade has two superimposed orders of columns, Doric on the lower level with Ionic above. The roofline is decorated by statuary. Since 1855 the building has housed the City Museum and, more recently, the city's art gallery. It has received international protection since 1994, along with the other Palladian buildings of Vicenza, as part of a World Heritage Site.
Porto Breganze Palace, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Porto Breganze Palace, the most sumptuous of the buildings of the time, with a portal by Lorenzo da Bologna adorned with delicate marble carvings, and a unique four-light window of its kind. In the exceptional sequence of late Gothic palaces of contrà Porti Palazzo da Porto Breganze, built around the middle of the fifteenth century, stands out for its noble lines and rich decorative solutions. The prominent element of the facade is the superb marble four-light window, which repeats, unique in the mainland, the features of the Venetian Ca ’d’oro. The round-headed door, the only asymmetric element of the façade, bears instead the indication «1481» and is considered one of the first works from Vicenza of the workshop of Tommaso da Lugano and Bernardino da Como; characteristic, the carved decoration of racemes and candelabras.
Places to see in ( Vicenza - Italy ) Corso Palladio
Places to see in ( Vicenza - Italy ) Corso Palladio
Corso Andrea Palladio is the main street in Vicenza , named after the second world war by the famous architect. About 700 meters long, it crosses the historical core of the city from west to east, respectively from Porta Castello to piazza Giacomo Matteotti. The course of the current course corresponds substantially to what, in Roman times, was the decumanus maximus of the city and, at the same time, the urban stretch of the consular Via Postumia . Also called strata major , after the construction of the early medieval city walls it was bordered to the west by the Porta Feliciana (very close, although not all coinciding with the Porta del Castello) and to the east by the Porta San Pietro (on the right bank of the Bacchiglione river, height of the bridge of St. Peter, time of the Angels).
During the Middle Ages and in modern times it retained its function as a link between the cities of the Veneto plain (respectively Verona and Padua), so that at its edges were opened inns, taverns and places for rental cars; Generally it was called Strata major , Strà grande , or simply Strà. It was also important public place. Already during the Middle Ages there were four points in which the public crier had to go to proclaim the decrees of the city government and the sentences of condemnation issued against the guilty: the door Sancti Petri , the plathea Sancte Corone , the domus illorum de Caldogno ( at the beginning of the current contrà Porti) and the canton of the red well (the intersection with the current Corso Fogazzaro)
The Course starts from the Porta Castello and from the Torrione (at No. 1) - the only remaining structures - of the mighty Castle built in 1343 by Antonio and Mastino II della Scala , who restored the Ezzelian fortress destroyed 50 years earlier, extending it into a a real castle, which occupied a square area, surrounded by deep pits, surrounded by towers at the four corners and the tower at the center. The current appearance of the Tower, with the projecting battlements with embrasures above corbels and with the addition of the lantern summit, almost certainly belongs to the Visconti period at the end of the fourteenth century
Next is Palazzo Marchi . A part of the castle, demolished in the nineteenth century, was replaced by this palace, whose high fence wall borders the course. The entrance, at the center of the wall, is given by an arched portal with a round arch, with a female head in an arch and crowned by a triangular tympanum with two reclining female figures holding a cartouche in the pediment
On the opposite corner of the square, at no. 13, there is the Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare , the Vicenza headquarters of Confindustria , which has promoted its restoration. The palace, which Francesco Thiene had built on the family property, was designed by Andrea Palladio presumably in 1572 and built by Vincenzo Scamozzi after the death of the master; it was bought in 1835 by Lelio Bonin Longare. Since 1994 he has entered, along with other Palladian architecture in Vicenza, in the list of world heritage of ' UNESCO.The similarity with other Palladian projects - for example with Palazzo Barbaran da Porto - makes one think of the seventies of the sixteenth century, both in the design of the lower part of the facade and in the large double- order loggia overlooking the inner courtyard .
The side instead - with the ground floor covered with mild ashlar, the tall French windows on the first floor crowned with alternately triangular and curved tympanum, the little protruding balustrade balconies - is the work of Scamozzi, considering the resemblance with Palazzo Trissino al Duomo . Even the deep atrium, substantially indifferent to the order grid, could be scrapped.
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VIAGGIANDO 22-12-12 Palazzo Thiene a Vicenza
In questa puntata Piero Brazzale ci porta a visitare Palazzo Thiene a Vicenza.