Vincenzo Scamozzi

Vincenzo Scamozzi (September 2, 1548 - August 7, 1616) born in Vicenza, Italy, was an architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Venice area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps the most important figure there between Andrea Palladio and Baldassarre Longhena, his one pupil.

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His father was the surveyor and building contractor Gian Domenico Scamozzi. He visited Rome, 1579-1580, and then moved to Venice in 1581.

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Scamozzi's influence spread far beyond his Italian commissions through his treatise, the last of the Renaissance works on the theory of architecture,L'Idea della Architettura Universale ("The Universal Idea of Architecture"), published with woodcut illustrations at Venice in 1615. Scamozzi also discussed practical building practices. Such treatises were becoming a vehicle for self-promotion, and Scamozzi included many of his own plans and elevations, as built, as they should have been built, and as idealized projects. Scamozzi knew the value of publicity distributed through the established channels of the book trade. His first book had been a quickly cobbled together illustrated commentary on the ruins of Rome,assembled in "the space of a few of days," according to his preface, and the woodcut images were stock productions that already existed. Over half were copied from a volume by Hieronymus Cock that appeared in the 1550s.

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His major book came out too late to influence his own success; he died the following year.

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Vincenzo Scamozzi related Images and Photos (experimental)

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