A report on Padua and Veneto

Remnants of Padua's Roman amphitheatre wall

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

The Botanical Garden of Padova today; in the background, the Basilica of Sant'Antonio

The unfinished façade of Padua Cathedral

Clock tower and Lion of St. Mark, symbol of the Serenissima Repubblic

Last Judgment by Giotto, part of the Scrovegni Chapel.

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.

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

This tempera, Two Christians before the Judges, hangs in the city's Cathedral.

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.

Loggia Amulea, as seen from Prato della Valle

Torre degli Anziani as seen from Piazza della Frutta

The Astronomical clock as seen from Piazza dei Signori

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

Padua (Padova ; Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.

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

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Euganean Hills

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The Euganean Hills (Colli Euganei ) are a group of hills of volcanic origin that rise to heights of 300 to 600 m from the Padovan-Venetian plain a few km south of Padua.

The Colli Euganei form the first Regional park established in the Veneto (1989), enclosing fifteen towns and eighty one hills.

University of Padua

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The university houses the oldest surviving permanent anatomical theatre in Europe, dating from 1595

Palazzo Bo is the historical seat of University of Padua since 1493

Coats of arms of professors and students in the Aula Magna, Palazzo Bo. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1966

Certificate of medicine of the University of Padua, awarded in 1642 to the Flemish Jan Damman.

The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy.

Groups within the Italian peninsula in the Iron Age. Veneti are in brown.

Adriatic Veneti

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The Veneti (also Heneti) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto.

It included cities of the modern Veneto such as Este, Padua, Vicenza, Asolo, Oderzo, Montebelluna, Vittorio Veneto, Cadore, as well as other areas around the Po Delta.

Province of Padua

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The Province of Padua (Provincia di Padova) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy.

Its capital is the city of Padua.

Abano Terme (known as Abano Bagni until 1924) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei; it is 10 km southwest by rail from Padua.

Kingdom of Italy

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State that existed from 1861—when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy—until 1946, when civil discontent led an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic.

Map of the Kingdom of Italy at its greatest extent in 1943

Italian unification between 1815 and 1870

Count Camillo Benso of Cavour, the first Prime Minister of the unified Italy

Victor Emmanuel II, the first King of the united Italy

Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major military leader during Italian unification

A factory machinery exposition in Turin, set in 1898, during the period of early industrialization, National Exhibition of Turin, 1898

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milano was an architectural work created by Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877 and named after the first King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel II.

The Triple Alliance in 1913, shown in red

Francesco Crispi promoted the Italian colonialism in Africa in the late 19th century.

The Ain Zara oasis during the Italo-Turkish War: propaganda postcard made by the Italian Army

Italian mounted infantry in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900

Italian dirigibles bomb Turkish positions in Libya, as the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912 was the first in history in which air attacks (carried out here by dirigible airships) determined the outcome.

Giovanni Giolitti was Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921.

Italy and its colonial possessions at the time of the outbreak of World War I: the area between British Egypt and the firmly held Italian territories is the region of southern Cyrenaica which was under dispute of ownership between Italy and the United Kingdom.

Gabriele D'Annunzio, national poet (vate) of Italy and a prominent nationalist revolutionary who was a supporter of Italy joining action in World War I

Generalissimo Luigi Cadorna (the man to the left of two officers to whom he is speaking) while visiting British batteries during World War I

Italian propaganda poster depicting the Battle of the Piave River

Members of the Arditi corps in 1918. More than 650,000 Italian soldiers lost their lives on the battlefields of World War I.

Armando Diaz, Chief of Staff of the Italian Army since November 1917, halted the Austro-Hungarian advance along the Piave River and launched counter-offensives which led to a decisive victory on the Italian Front. He is celebrated as one of the greatest generals of World War I.

Italian propaganda dropped over Vienna by Gabriele D'Annunzio in 1918

Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (2nd from left) at the World War I peace negotiations in Versailles with David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson (from left)

Residents of Fiume cheering D'Annunzio and his Legionari in September 1919, when Fiume had 22,488 (62% of the population) Italians in a total population of 35,839 inhabitants

Benito Mussolini (second from left) and his Fascist Blackshirts in 1920

Mussolini was initially a highly popular leader in Italy until Italy's military failures in World War II.

Haile Selassie's resistance to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia made him Man of the Year in 1935 by Time.

The Italian Empire (red) before World War II. Pink areas were annexed/occupied for various periods between 1940 and 1943 (the Tientsin concession in China is not shown).

Erwin Rommel meeting Italian General Italo Gariboldi in Tripoli, February 1941

The Italian Army in Russia fought on the Eastern Front.

Territory of the Italian Social Republic and the South Kingdom

Three men executed by public hanging in a street of Rimini, 1944

Rebels celebrating the liberation of Naples, after the Four days of Naples (27–30 September 1943)

Members of the Italian resistance in Ossola, 1944

Italy declared war on Austria in alliance with Prussia in 1866 and received the region of Veneto following their victory.

In the spring of 1916, Austro-Hungarians counterattacked in the Altopiano of Asiago, towards Verona and Padova, in their Strafexpedition, but were defeated by the Italians.

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

Palladio was born on 30 November 1508 in Padua and was given the name Andrea di Pietro della Gondola.

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.

Scrovegni Chapel

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Older palace, also bought, and redecorated, by Enrico Scrovegni.

Kiss of Judas, one of the panels in the Scrovegni Chapel

Cast of Giovanni Pisano's effigy of Enrico Scrovegni, in the chapel

Model of the interior of the chapel, towards entrance

Section of the wall, showing the setting of the narrative panels.

The centre of the vault, with Madonna and Child as one of the two suns, and prophets as planets

Expulsion of the money changers from the temple

]]The Scrovegni Chapel (Cappella degli Scrovegni ), also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian monastery, the Monastero degli Eremitani in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.

Andrea Mantegna

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Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.

St. Sebastian, 1480; panel; Musée du Louvre

The Agony in the Garden (left panel of the predella of the San Zeno Altarpiece, 1455) National Gallery, London is the pinnacle of Mantegna's early style.

Christ as the Suffering Redeemer. Christ resurrecting, depicted according to Luke 24:1–2, praising the Lord with a hymn (c. 1488–1500)

on the San Zeno Altarpiece, central panel, San Zeno, Verona

Judith and Holofernes, by Andrea Mantegna or possibly Giulio Campagnola, c. 1495

The Virgin Mary in Andrea Mantegna's San Zeno Altarpiece combines pseudo-Arabic halos and garment hems, with an Oriental carpet at her feet (1456–1459).

Bacchanal with a wine vat, engraving by Mantegna, c. 1475, 278 × 422 mm

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ Tempera on canvas, 68×81 cm, 1490; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

Mantegna was born in Isola di Carturo, Venetian Republic close to Padua (now Italy), second son of a carpenter, Biagio.

Padua attracted artists not only from the Veneto but also from Tuscany, such as Paolo Uccello, Filippo Lippi and Donatello; Mantegna's early career was shaped by impressions of Florentine works.

Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

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Frontal view of the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua.

Frescoes by Altichiero da Zevio in the St. James Chapel.

Coat of arms of the Basilica of Saint Anthony.

The Pontifical Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua (Basilica Pontificia di Sant'Antonio di Padova) is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in Padua, Veneto, Northern Italy, dedicated to St. Anthony.