Caixa Forum In Barcelona presents "Palladio ~ The Architect (1508-1580)" Exhibition |
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| Written by rubin |
| Friday, 22 May 2009 03:18 |
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This major exhibition will explore new aspects of Andrea Palladio’s work. Drawing upon recent scholarship, it will exploit the survival of a large number of Palladio’s exceptional drawings, and a number of recently created large scale models of his major buildings. These will be complemented by specially commissioned computer animations, which will provide a “fly through” experience of visiting a Palladian building. To contextualise his work, paintings by Titian, Veronese and El Greco will establish his circle of friends and patrons and testify to the close collaboration between architect and artist during his lifetime, while works by such artists as Canaletto will demonstrate the popularity of his buildings for 18thcentury ‘men of taste’.  The
exhibition will follow Palladio’s career, from the Basilica, the earlier palaces
in Vicenza and his innovative solutions to rural buildings such as the Villa
Poiana and the Villa Barbaro at Maser to his great Venetian churches,
culminating with the Villa Rotonda. However, Palladio’s fame and influence
rested not only on his executed buildings but also on his Four Books of
Architecture (1570), in which he illustrated the basic grammar and vocabulary of
architecture, his reconstructions of classical buildings, and his built and
un-built projects. His language answered the practical and social needs of his
time and those of later centuries. The treatise helped to spread his fame, their
designs becoming models for new constructions throughout the world.
Moreover, the presence of many of his drawings in England (from 1614, when Inigo Jones brought them back with him from Vicenza) had a considerable impact on British architecture. In the early eighteenth century, the 3rd Earl of Burlington, himself the owner of a very significant number of Palladio’s drawings, initiated the Palladian Revival with his remodeling of the 17th century Burlington House in the Palladian style. To present the extent of Palladio’s influence the exhibition will concentrate on a selection of pertinent examples. These will show how Palladio’s system of architecture was transposed and adapted to countries and contexts far from the Veneto region. The ablest Palladians in fact were those who best understood that to enrich their own work with Palladio’s ideas meant to extend his method, adapting it to the needs of their own place and time, rather than building precise facsimiles of his works. The architects who will be presented here included the two great masters of the ‘Vicenza School’; Palladio’s jealous Vicentine follower, the brilliant Vincenzo Scamozzi and his inventive admirer Inigo Jones. Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy has been organized by the Royal Academy of Arts and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects. The exhibition has been curated by Guido Beltramini, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, and Howard Burns, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa with Charles Hind and Irena Murray from the Royal Institute of British Architects and MaryAnne Stevens, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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