Vincenzo Scamozzi
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Villa Capra "La Rotonda", Villa Duodo, Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi |
Vincenzo Scamozzi (2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616) was an
The great public project of Palladio's that Scamozzi inherited early in the process of construction was the Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza, which Palladio had designed in the last months of his life.
Biography
Scamozzi was born in Vicenza. His father was the surveyor and building contractor Gian Domenico Scamozzi; he was Scamozzi's first teacher, imbuing him with the principles of Sebastiano Serlio, laid out in Serlio's book. Vincenzo visited Rome in 1579–1580, and then moved to Venice in 1581. In 1599 - 1600, he visited the German Empire and France and left a sketchbook record of his impressions of French architecture, which first saw the light of day in 1959.[1] Scamozzi is famous for having inherited several unfinished projects from Andrea Palladio at the time of Palladio's death in 1580 and for bringing them to their completed form.
The Idea of a Universal Architecture
Scamozzi's influence spread far beyond his Italian commissions through his two-volume treatise, L'idea dell'architettura universale ("The Idea of a Universal Architecture"), which is one of the last works of the Renaissance dealing with the theory of architecture.[2] It was originally published with woodcut illustrations at Venice in 1615. Scamozzi depended for sections of his treatment of Vitruvius on Daniele Barbaro's commentary, published in 1556 with illustrations by Palladio;[3] he also discussed issues of building practice. At that time, such treatises were becoming a vehicle for self-promotion. Scamozzi was aware of the potential value of publicity distributed through the established channels of the book trade and he included many of his own plans and elevations, as built, as they should have been built, and as idealized projects.
His first book entitled Discorsi sopra l'antichita di Roma (Venice: Ziletti, 1583) had been quickly cobbled together with some illustrated commentary on the ruins of Rome, assembled in "the space of a few of days." According to his preface to the volumes, the images were stock productions that already existed. Over half were copied from a volume published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp in 1551.[4]
His major book came out one year before his death and was too late to influence his own success. Scamozzi's practice is sometimes spoken of as being a source of the
Piazza San Marco
Scamozzi moved to
Chronology of works
All but one of the following works are in the territory of the Republic of Venice:
- 1568-1575: Villa of Girolamo Ferramosca, Barbano di Grisignano di Zocco (Province of Vicenza) (with Gian Domenico Scamozzi)
- 1569: Palazzo Godi, Vicenza (project, altered during later execution)
- 1572-1593: Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare, Vicenza (reworked on a previous project by Palladio)
- 1574-1615: Villa of Leonardo Verlato, Villaverla (Vicenza)
- 1575: Palazzo Caldogno, Vicenza
- 1575-1578: Rocca Pisana (Vettor Pisani Villa), Lonigo (Vicenza)
- 1576-1579: Trissino-Trento (Pierfranceso Trissino Palace), Vicenza (with Gian Domenico Scamozzi)
- 1580: Villa of Francesco Priuli, Treville di Castelfranco Veneto (Province of Treviso) (north wing)
- 1580-1584: Villa Nani Mocenigo, Canda (Province of Rovigo)
- 1580-1592: Villa Capra "La Rotonda", near Vicenza (completed construction of Andrea Palladio's structure for Mario Capra, and added stables, not completed until 1620)
- 1581-1586: Church of San Gaetano Thiene, Padua
- 1581-1599: Procuratie Nuove, Piazza San Marco, Venice (continued with a different interior design by Francesco Smeraldi and completed in 1663 by Longhena)
- 1582: Palazzo Cividale, Vicenza [attributed]
- 1582-1591: Library of San Marco, Venice (completion of Jacopo Sansovino's design)
- 1584-1585: Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza (remodeling of structure designed by Andrea Palladio, wooden scene)
- 1587-1596: Library of San Marco, Venice (the vestibule, Antisala)
- 1588: Villa Cornaro, Poisolo, Treville di Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso) (reconstruction)
- 1588-1590: Province of Mantova)
- 1590: Villa Contarini for Girolamo Contarini, Loreggia (Padua) (revised in construction)
- 1590-1595: Church of San Nicolò da Tolentino, Venice
- 1591-1593: Statuary of Venice Republic (museum), Venice
- 1591-1593: Design of Palmanova, an 'ideal city' built over the next thirty years 100km northeast of Venice
- 1591-1594: Monastery and Church of San Gaetano Thiene, Padua
- 1591-1595: Girolamo Cornaro, Piombino Dese (Province of Padua) (completion) [attributed]
- 1591-1597: Villa Duodo and Chapel of San Giorgio, Monselice (Padua)
- 1592-1616: Palace of Galeazzo Trissino al Corso, Vicenza
- 1594-1600: Villa of Valerio Bardellini, Monfumo
- 1596: Villa Ferretti for Girolamo Ferretti on the Riviera del Brenta, Sambruson del Dolo (Venice). The A. Everett Austin House in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. is an homage to the Villa Ferreti.[6]
- 1596-1597: Girolamo Cornaro, Piombino Dese (Padua) (added stable wing).
- 1597: Villa Molin, Mandria, (Padua)
- 1597: Villa Priuli, Carrara (Padua)
- 1597-1598: Villa Godi, Sarmego di Grumolo delle Abbadesse (Vicenza)
- 1601: Palazzo del Bò, Padua (university facade)
- 1601-1606: San Giacomo di Rialto, Venice (altar of Scuola degli Orefici; with Girolamo Campagna)
- 1601-1636: San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti Church and Hospital, Venice
- 1604-1612: Cathedral of Sts. Rupert and Virgil, Salzburg, Austria (project; completed in 1614-28 by Santino Solari)
- 1605: Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (sacristy door; with Alessandro Vittoria)
- 1605-1616: Villa Duodo, Monselice (Padua) (six chapels for Via Romana)
- 1607-1611: San Giorgio Maggiore (church), Venice (completion of Palladio's facade)
- 1607-1616: Villa Cornaro al Paradiso, Venice (twin pavilions)
- 1609: Domenico Trevisan Villa, San Donà di Piave
- 1609-1616: Canal Grande, Venice
- 1610 Villa Contarini degli Scrigni detta Vigna Contarena (Este)
- 1614: Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi, Venice (east wing; demolished in 1659 and rebuilt in 1660)
Notes
- ^ Franco Barbieri, ed. Taccuino di Viaggio da Parigi a Venezia (14 marzo–11 maggio 1600) (Venice/Rome:Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale), 1959.
- ^ Vincenzo Scamozzi. The Idea of a Universal Architecture. English translation published in Amsterdam (2003).
- ^ Inigo Jones' library included Palladio, Scamozzi and Barbaro on Vitruvius.
- ^ Praecipua aliquot Romanae Antiquitatis Ruinarum Monimenta, British Museum, UK.
- ^ Wittkower, Rudolf (May 1953). "Vincenzo Scamozzi". The Burlington Magazine. 95 (602): 171.
- New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
Bibliography
- Scamozzi, Vincenzo (1615). Idea dell'architettura universale (in Italian). Vol. 1. Venezia: Giorgio Valentini.
- Scamozzi, Vincenzo (1615). Idea dell'architettura universale (in Italian). Vol. 2. Venezia: Giorgio Valentini.
- Bibliography of the Idea: http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Auteur/Scamozzi.asp?param=en
- Charles Davis, Architecture and Light: Vincenzo Scamozzi’s Statuary Installation in the Chiesetta of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice in Annali di architettura n° 14, Vicenza 2002
- Branko Mitrovic´ and Vittoria Senes, Vincenzo Scamozzi’s Annotations to Daniele Barbaro’s Commentary on Vitruvius’ De Architectura in Annali di architettura n° 14, Vicenza 2002
- Konrad Ottenheym, A Bird’s-Eye View of the Dissemination of Scamozzi’s Treatise in Northern Europe in Annali di architettura, n° 18–19, 2007
- Guido Beltramini, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Scamozzi’s Idea della Architettura Universale in Palladian Territory in Annali di architettura, n° 18–19, 2007
- Howard Burns, Inigo Jones and Vincenzo Scamozzi in Annali di architettura, n° 18–19, 2007
- Giles Worsley, Scamozzi’s Influence on English Seventeenth-Century Architecture in Annali di architettura, n° 18–19, 2007
- Uvres d'architecture de Vincent Scamozzi, architecte de la République de Venise, 1764
External links
- Media related to Vincenzo Scamozzi at Wikimedia Commons