Andrea Palladio made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Andrea Palladio as Italian architect (1508–1580).
Andrea Palladio was born at Padua in 1508. His recorded nationality is the Republic of Venice.
This was the period in which observation began to outrank inherited authority, and printing let work reach readers who would never meet its author.
He worked as architect and art theorist.
His name is attached above all to country houses and villas. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
The surviving body of work includes Basilica Palladiana, Gallerie dell'Accademia and Villa Saraceno.
His recorded fields of work are architecture.
Working from the Republic of Venice shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Andrea Palladio died in 1580, aged 72. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: Basilica Palladiana
- Notable work: Gallerie dell'Accademia
- Notable work: Villa Saraceno
- Notable work: Villa Almerico Capra (La Rotonda)
- Worked as architect and art theorist
