RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE, ITALY

Palazzo Grimani

Michel Sanmicheli's greatest work.

Palazzo Pesaro

begun by Baldassare Longhena and finished by Gaspari.

Palazzo Rezzonico

begun by Baldassare Longhena and finished by Massari.

S. Zaccaria

by Antonio Gambello and completed by Mauro Codussi. The monumental fagade shows the transition from late gothic to renaissance. It has nearly every wall covered with paintings by 17th and 1 8th century artists.

Loggetta

by Jacopo Sansovino is based on the triumphal arch with three openings and an entablature in imperial Roman style.

Scuola Grande di San Marco

by Martino ombardo. The ground floor has panels with perspective reliefs by Tullio Lombardo. Artists of this period are somewhat curious about the concept of perspectives.

Palazzo Bevilacqua

by Michel Sanmicheli has a rusticated lower story and an elegant piano nobile on the upper floor.

Villa Barbaro

designed by Andrea Palladio for his friends Daniele and Marcantonio Barbaro. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The interior of the piano nobile is painted with frescoes by Paolo Veronese in the trompe-o'eil style or illusionary imagery.

San Giorgio Maggiore

designed by Andrea Palladio. Its facade was completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi.

Santa Maria della Salute

done by Badassare Longhena. a majestic example of Venetian Baroque. It has spacious surrounding ambulatory and radiating chapels making it one of the largest aisled, polygonal churches. It is built on a platform made of 100,000 wooden piles. It is constructed of Istrian stone and marmorino (brick covered with marble dust). Also called the Basilica of St. Mary of health, La Salute is an offering for the city's deliverance from a devastating plague

Basilica Palladiana

famous for its Renaissance arcades by Andrea Palladio.

Palladian Motif

grouping of arches and smaller free-standing twin columns

S. Giorgio dei Greci

is a graceful little church with a mature Renaissance facade.

Villa Capra

known as La Rotonda by Andrea Palladio. The dome was designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi. The building is symmetrical with a square plan and with identical porticoes projecting from each of the four facades.

Santa Maria dei Miracoli

known as the 'marble church" in white, grey and pink. It is a popular Venetian wedding venue. a miniature church was designed by Pietro Lombardo with his sons Antonio and Tullio It is one of the best examples of early Venetian Renaissance. Unlike other churches that has transformed from one style to another, the Miracoli remained in its original design by only one artist, Pietro Lombardo.

Library of St. Mark's

the most outstanding of the buildings of Jacopo Sansovino.