If you want to break away from the crowds that make Venice a poster child for the term “overtourism” and you love architecture, there is one place you must go: nearby Vicenza, a showcase for the work ...

This week, visitors to Venice were treated to a new home for Nicoletta Fiorucci art foundation, a new exhibition space, SMAC, and artist Luc Tuymans's special commission at San Giorgio Maggiore. There ...

PIOMBINO DESE, ITALY — One afternoon in the middle of September, I stepped off a train onto the rain-slicked streets of this sleepy, well-kept town 25 miles northwest of Venice. After dashing for ...

A small, elegant exhibition on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey, has been attracting numerous visitors since it opened April 2, 2010.

ROME, my Mistress. Vitruvius, my Master, Architecture, my Life.” Such was the trinity acknowledged by Andrea Palladio (1518-80), a stonemason’s son from Vicenza, Italy, who grew up to rule over a ...

Indeed, if an architect's worth is to be judged in terms of the influence that he exerts, there is only really one figure whose standing rivals that of Le Corbusier. Born in 1508, and employed until ...

Left: seemingly accurate portrait of Palladio purchased at an antiques store in New Jersey, USA. Right: seemingly accurate portrait of Palladio in a private collection in Moscow, Russia. Image via The ...

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 30, the 334h day of 2005 with 31 to follow. Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio ...

Born 500 years ago, Andrea Palladio is considered one of western civilisation's finest architects. Credit: GETTY/HULTON ARCHIVE For many, the creation that defines Palladio is the church of San ...