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#432 - from 26 May 2016 to 1 June 2016


Vincenzo Scamozzi, tarvel notebook from Paris to Venice, 1600: basilica of Saint-Denis. Vicenza, Pinacoteca Civica, Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe.

Scamozzi, an architect and an intellectual

VICENZA - He left us some of the best known sites in the world – piazza San Marco in Venice (the side of the Procuratie Nuove) -, was painted by Veronese and defined by Wittkower as being the father of neo-classicism. In spite of that, he has fallen to oblivion. Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) was with Palladio (the basilica and the Olympic Theatre of Vicenza, the beautiful villas in the Venetian hinterland) and Longhena (the Salute church in Venice) one of the greatest architects of the XVIth century. This small exhibition shows the demanding concept he had of his profession, combining the study of the great classics, the carefully executed drafts for the cathedral of Salzburg in 1606 for example, his travel notes (his Parisian notebook from 1600 is exhibited). One of the strongest points of the exhibition is the recreation of his library – a studious atmosphere that cradled him since childhood (he was the son of a well-to-do entrepreneur) – of which some of the scattered editions have been patiently brought together.
Nella mente di Vincenzo Scamozzi at Palladio Museum, from 25 May to 20 November 2016.

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