![Andrea Palladio, original name Andrea di Pietro
della Gondola,
(born Nov. 30, 1508, Padua, Republic of Venice
[Italy]—died August 1580, Vicenza),
Italian architect, regarded as the greatest
architect of 16th-century northern Italy.
His designs for palaces (palazzi) and villas,
notably the Villa Rotonda (1550–51) near Vicenza,
and
his treatise I quattro libri dell’architettura
(1570; The Four Books of Architecture) made him
one of the most influential figures in Western
architecture.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/andreapalladio-180915151939/85/Andrea-palladio-2-320.jpg)
Andrea palladio
- 2. Andrea Palladio, original name Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, (born Nov. 30, 1508, Padua, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died August 1580, Vicenza), Italian architect, regarded as the greatest architect of 16th-century northern Italy. His designs for palaces (palazzi) and villas, notably the Villa Rotonda (1550–51) near Vicenza, and his treatise I quattro libri dell’architettura (1570; The Four Books of Architecture) made him one of the most influential figures in Western architecture.