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Palladio's Venice : architecture and society in a Renaissance Republic / Tracy E. Cooper.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Tracy Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580--Criticism and interpretation.
- Palladio, Andrea.
- Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.
- Architecture, Renaissance--Italy--Venice.
- Architecture, Renaissance.
- Church architecture.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Italy--Venice.
- Church architecture--Italy--Venice.
- Buildings--Italy--Venice.
- Buildings.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 392 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Celebrated Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) devoted much of his career to the city of Venice. Famous for public buildings he had designed in his native Vicenza and country villas he had built for wealthy patricians there, he arrived in Venice in the mid- 1550s confident of establishing a successful new practice. Yet Palladio's Venetian career never matched his lofty expectations. Failing to achieve the position of state architect or to earn the kinds of commissions to which he was accustomed, he found himself working in a category new to his practice: ecclesiastical architecture. It was his stunning churches, however, including San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore, that established Palladio's lasting renown. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Tracy E. Cooper organizes Palladio's work in Venice according to different types of patrons. She discusses his major monuments as well as less well-known work for charitable foundations, convents, triumphal processions, and the rebuilding of the Ducal Palace. She tells the compelling story of an established architect breaking into a new market and of a Renaissance city in the midst of sweeping change.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Foundations
- Palladio and the Venetian book industry
- Venetian patronage
- The state of the patriciate
- Domestic, public, and religious projects
- Compagnia delle calza degli accesi
- The patriarchs
- San Pietro di Castello
- San Francesco della Vigna
- Religious orders
- San Giorgio Maggiore
- Convento della Carita
- Santa Lucia
- La Celestia
- The Venetian state
- Competitions
- Tomb of Doge Alvise Mocenigo
- Projects for the Doge's palace
- Triumphal arch for the entry of Henri III
- Il redentore
- Charitable institutions
- Scuola dei Mercanti
- L'ospedaletto
- Le zitelle
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: Chronology of Palladio's works according to patrons
- Appendix II: Provveditori for the Doge's palace, 1533-1600
- Appendix III: Genealogy of patronage
- Manuscript and archival sources.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-374) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300105827
- OCLC:
- 56730082
- Publisher Number:
- 9780300105827
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