A report on Vicenza, Bassano del Grappa and Veneto

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Bassano del Grappa, Piazza della Libertà

The three-dimensional stage of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza

Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare, designed by Palladio and built by Vincenzo Scamozzi

Plaque for Vicenza in the UNESCO World Heritage List

The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

A plate of Baccalà alla vicentina, a typical dish of the city

The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.

St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.

The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

Bassano del Grappa (Basan or Bassan, ) is a city and comune, in the Vicenza province, in the region of Veneto, in northern Italy.

- Bassano del Grappa

It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione River.

- Vicenza

In 1175 Bassano was conquered by Vicenza, but the city maintained a semi-autonomous status as a free comune in the 13th century also, when it was home to the family of the Ezzelini, who first unified the various territories of Veneto.

- Bassano del Grappa

When peace was restored, however, the old rivalry with Padua, Bassano, and other cities was renewed, besides which there were the internal factions of the Vivaresi (Ghibellines) and the Maltraversi (Guelphs).

- Vicenza

Este, Padua, Oderzo, Adria, Vicenza, Verona, and Altino became centres of Venetic culture.

- Veneto

The White Asparagus of Bassano is a typical product of the northern part of the province of Vicenza.

- Veneto

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Portrait of Palladio by Alessandro Maganza

Andrea Palladio

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Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

One of the first works by Palladio, Villa Godi (begun 1537)

Hall of the Muses of the Villa Godi (1537–1542)

Palazzo Thiene (1542–1558), (begun by Giulio Romano, revised and completed by Palladio)

Ground floor and entrance stairway of the Basilica Palladiana

Upper level loggia of the Basilica Palladiana

The front page of I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) (1642 edition)

Villa Cornaro (begun 1553) combined rustic living and an imposing space for formal entertaining

Detail of the Hall of Olympus, with frescoes by Paolo Veronese

Palladio's plan of the Villa in I quattro libri dell'architettura, 1570

North facade of Villa Foscari, facing the Brenta Canal

Interior decoration of grotesques on salon ceiling of Villa Foscari

South facade of Villa Foscari, with the large windows that illuminate the main salon

Nave of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1565)

Interior of Il Redentore Church in Venice (1576)

Section of the Tempietto Barbaro, drawn by Scamozzi (1783)

Stage with scenery designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, who completed the theatre after the death of Palladio

Stage and seating of his last work, the Teatro Olimpico (1584)

House of the Director of the Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1775)

La Rotonde customs barrier, Parc Monceau, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Palladian garden structure at Steinhöfel by David Gilly (1798)

The Queen's House, Greenwich by Inigo Jones (1616–1635)

Chiswick House by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and William Kent (completed 1729)

Wilton House south front by Inigo Jones (1650)

Palladio Bridge at Wilton House (1736–37)

Stourhead House by Colen Campbell (1721–24), inspired by Villa Capra

Harvard Hall at Harvard University by Thomas Dawes (1766)

Monticello, residence of Thomas Jefferson (1772)

Winning design for the first United States Capitol by Thomas Thornton (1793)

Clarity and harmony. Villa Badoer (1556–1563), an early use by Palladio of the elements of a Roman temple

The Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, (begun 1546) with arched Palladian window and round oculi to the loggia.

A variation of the Palladian or Venetian window, with round oculi, at Villa Pojana (1548–49)

Late Palladio style, Mannerist decoration on the facade of the Palazzo del Capitanio (1565–1572)

Villa Capra "La Rotonda" outside Vicenza

The city of Vicenza, with its 23 buildings designed by Palladio, and 24 Palladian villas of the Veneto are listed by UNESCO as part of a World Heritage Site named City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.

Villa Barbaro (begun 1557) at Maser was an imposing suburban villa, built for the brothers Marcantonio and Daniele Barbaro, who were respectively occupied with politics and religious affairs in the Veneto, or Venice region.

1548 (built 1554–1556): Villa Angarano, for Giacomo Angarano, Bassano del Grappa, Province of Vicenza (main body of the villa later rebuilt by Baldassarre Longhena; the barchesse are part of the original)

Republic of Venice

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Sovereign state and maritime republic in parts of present-day Italy (mainly northeastern Italy) which existed for 1100 years from 697 AD until 1797 AD. Centered on the lagoon communities of the prosperous city of Venice, it incorporated numerous overseas possessions in modern Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Greece, Albania and Cyprus.

The Doge of Venice, illustrated in the manuscript Théâtre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre avec leurs habits et ornemens divers, tant anciens que modernes, diligemment depeints au naturel. Painted by Lucas d'Heere in the 2nd half of the 16th century. Preserved by the Ghent University Library.

Map of the Venetian Republic, circa 1000

Procession in St Mark's Square by Gentile Bellini in 1496

Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice during the War of the League of Cambrai.

The Venetian fort of Palamidi in Nafplion, Greece, one of many forts that secured Venetian trade routes in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Greater coat of arms of the Republic, with its various possessions and claims, in the aftermath of the Morean War

Drawing of the Doge's Palace, late 14th century

The governmental structure of the Venetian Republic

The hearing given by the Doge in the Sala del Collegio in Doge's Palace by Francesco Guardi, 1775–80

Voyage of Marco Polo into the Far East during the Pax Mongolica

The Piraeus Lion in Venice, in front of the Venetian Arsenal

Relief of the Venetian Lion on the Landward Gate in Zara (Zadar), capital of the Venetian Dalmatia

Relief of the Venetian Lion in Parenzo (Poreč)

Relief of the Venetian Lion in Cattaro (Kotor)

Relief of the Venetian Lion in Candia (Heraklion)

Relief of the Venetian Lion in Frangokastello, Crete

Venetian blazon with the Lion of Saint Mark, as frequently found on the New Fortress walls, Corfu.

The sack of Constantinople in 1204 on a mosaic in the San Giovanni Evangelista church in Ravenna, 1213

By the end of the 14th century, Venice had acquired mainland possessions in Italy, annexing Mestre and Serravalle in 1337, Treviso and Bassano del Grappa in 1339, Oderzo in 1380, and Ceneda in 1389.

In the early 15th century, the republic began to expand onto the Terraferma. Thus, Vicenza, Belluno, and Feltre were acquired in 1404, and Padua, Verona, and Este in 1405.

The pope wanted Romagna; Emperor Maximilian I: Friuli and Veneto; Spain: the Apulian ports; the king of France: Cremona; the king of Hungary: Dalmatia, and each one some of another's part.