Andrea Palladio. You may not know his name, but you have definitely seen the High Renaissance architect’s influence on the traditional architecture of Western Europe and indeed America. Palladio built ...

It is hard to think of a single architect’s impact on a city that compares with that of Andrea Palladio (1508-80) on Vicenza, near Venice. Despite his fame, enhanced by his publication of “The Four ...

If you want to break away from the crowds that make Venice a poster child for the term “overtourism” and you love architecture, there is one place you must go: nearby Vicenza, a showcase for the work ...

A small, elegant exhibition on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey, has been attracting numerous visitors since it opened April 2, 2010.

Palladio, ANDREA, Italian architect, b. at Vicenza, 1508; d. at Venice, August 19, 1580. There is a tradition that he was the son of a poor carpenter, with no surname of his own, and that the famous ...

Left: seemingly accurate portrait of Palladio purchased at an antiques store in New Jersey, USA. Right: seemingly accurate portrait of Palladio in a private collection in Moscow, Russia. Image via The ...