Vincenzo Scamozzi

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Vincenzo Scamozzi.

Vincenzo Scamozzi (September 2, 1548 - August 7, 1616) was an Italian 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, Scamozzi's one pupil.

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. Vincenzo visited Rome in 1579-1580, and then moved to Venice in 1581. In 1600 he visited France and left a sketchbook record of his impressions of French architecture that first saw the light of day in 1960.[1]

Scamozzi's influence spread far beyond his Italian commissions through his treatise, L'Idea della Architettura Universale ("The Universal Idea of Architecture"), which is the last of the Renaissance works on the theory of architecture. It was published with woodcut illustrations at Venice in 1615. Scamozzi depended for sections of his treatment of Vitruvius to Daniele Barbaro's commentary, published in 1556 with illustrations by Palladio;[2] he also discussed issues of building practice. 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.

Previously, 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.

His major book came out too late to influence his own success; he died the following year. Scamozzi's practice is as much the source of the neo-Palladian architecture that was introduced by Inigo Jones as Andrea Palladio's own example. Rudolf Wittkower called him "the intellectural father of neo-classicism".[3]

Chronology of works

All but one of the following works are in Italy:

Notes

  1. ^ Franco Barbieri, ed. Taccuino di Viaggio da Parigi a Venezia (Venice/Rome:Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale).
  2. ^ Inigo Jones' library included Palladio, Scamozzi and Barbaro on Vitruvius.
  3. ^ Wittkower, reviewing Franco Barbieri, Vincenzo Scamozzi (Verona/Vicenza:Cassa di Risparmio) in The Burlington Magazine 95 No. 602 (May 1953), p. 171.

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