Palladio in America: The Architect on Tour
In our March 2011 situation, Julie Maris/Semel wrote about the city of Vicenza and why it is a need to-check out if you are interested in architecture and the legacy of the great 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio. UNESCO has even named Palladio's buildings in Vicenza and villas in the surrounding countryside as a Planet Heritage Website.
If you cannot make it to Vicenza correct absent, you can understand about Palladio right right here at residence. Following all, on December 6, 2010, the Congress of the United States of The us adopted a resolution - by unanimous vote - recognizing Andrea Palladio as the "father of American architecture."
In New York Metropolis, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Public Library on Fifth Avenue, Town Hall as nicely as United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. are studies in Palladio's bilateral symmetry. The Rotunda at Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia is encircled by pairs of columns with capitals that attribute the composite purchase of Palladio. Pattern books that American architects and builders used in the 17th and 18th centuries had been very influenced by Palladio.
The exhibition "Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey" organized by the Royal Institute of British Architects commemorates the 500th anniversary of Palladio's birth and his affect from Italy to The us. By now viewed in New York and Washington, D.C., the exhibition moves on to the Snite Museum at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana from June five to July 31, 2011 and at the Carnegie Museum of Artwork in Pittsburgh from September 24 to December 31, 2011.
Photo of Palladio's statue in Vicenza by Julie Maris/Semel
