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left, My well-travelled poster. I say this because I nearly lost it several times, once backtracking to retrieve it from the train. above , Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), active in Venice and the Veneto. This portrait was painted by El Greco circa 1570-75. Oil on canvas. 116 x 98cm. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
The highlight of the whole trip was seeing the Palladio buildings I had studied opened for the celebration. They were real and I was immediately and intimately connected to the past and to the architect who was still so influential to the course of western architecture four centuries after his death. Such a touching historical connection was a wonderful experience; when I got to Venice, I discovered a special multi-city exhibition for the four hundred year anniversary of the death of Andrea Palladio in 1580. I bought the exhibition poster which has been on my walls these many years since.
below, 1,500 lira to enter 400 years of Palladio: €4,35 today.
David Murray
Also in Vicenza I serendipitously got to visit Palladio’s Villa Capra, built over many years from 1567 to the 1590. Again, the drawings in A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method came to life. I touched the stone and sensed an atmospheric connection with Palladio and my ancient architectural profession. His treatise, Il quattro libri dell’architectura ( The Four Books of Architecture ) was broadly disseminated at end of the sixteenth century — still an important reference for European and North American architects.
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