The Villa Rotonda (1550–51) near Vicenza, and his treatise I quattro libri dell’architettura (1570 The Four Books of Architecture) made him one of the most influential figures in Western architecture. His designs for palaces (palazzi) and villas, notably Italian architect, regarded as the greatest architect of 16th-century 30, 1508, Padua, Republic of Venice -died August 1580, Vicenza) Palladian style-influenced architecture is classified as NeoclassicalĪndrea Palladio, original name Andrea di Pietro della Gondola (born Nov. Succession.Palladio was a High Renaissance architect. A second editionįollowed in 1581, a year after his death, another in 1601, and so on in remarkable Palladio, first published in 1570, ten years before his death. Palladio ranks among the most influential architects ofĪll time, primarily because of his 4-volume book, The Architecture of A. Ten Books on Architecture) and Leon Battista Alberti ( Palladio's work is indebted the Roman architect Vitruvius ( The Town and country houses, public buildings and bridges in Venice and on the Venetian He published the first scholarly guide book to classical Rome in 1554. Trissino, took him to Rome in 1541 where he turned to the study of ancient buildings. He was originally trained as a sculptor (a not unusual thingįor Renaissance architects) and as a stone mason. Palladio was born in Padua in 1508, of humble family, but Third edition by Giacomo Leoni, London, 1742.Īndrea Palladio, 1508-1580, an Italian Renaissance Illustrated Architecture Dictionaryįrontispiece, Volume I, The Architecture of A.