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The Palazzo Pretorio or Palazzo dei Provveditori veneti is a palace in Cividale del Friuli, northern Italy, attributed to the architect Andrea Palladio and built between 1565 and 1586. Since 1990 it is the home of the National Archeological Museum (Museo archeologico nazionale) of Cividale.
Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari testified of the existence of a project by Palladio for the Palazzo Pretorio at Cividale, for which he executed a model; he also wrote that the architect was present at the building’s foundation ceremony. The desire of the Civic Council to construct the Palazzo Pretorio dates to 1559, but the laying of the foundation stone had to wait until March 1565, when the financial means became available.
The palace was completed in 1586. Palladio's contribution in the building is not immediately recognizable, even if the peculiar
Palazzo Pretorio in the CISA website
(original source for the first revision of this article, with kind permission) *
The Palazzo Pretorio or Palazzo dei Provveditori veneti is a palace in Cividale del Friuli, northern Italy, attributed to the architect Andrea Palladio and built between 1565 and 1586. Since 1990 it is the home of the National Archeological Museum (Museo archeologico nazionale) of Cividale.
Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari testified of the existence of a project by Palladio for the Palazzo Pretorio at Cividale, for which he executed a model; he also wrote that the architect was present at the building’s foundation ceremony. The desire of the Civic Council to construct the Palazzo Pretorio dates to 1559, but the laying of the foundation stone had to wait until March 1565, when the financial means became available.
The palace was completed in 1586. Palladio's contribution in the building is not immediately recognizable, even if the peculiar basement
A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, ...
, with its stone bosses, may derive from Palladio’s studies of the Roman antiquities in Dalmatia
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, specifically the amphitheatre in Pula. What seems probable is that the building’s execution was at least undertaken without Palladio’s control, and without particular respect for his original project.
References
Palazzo Pretorio in the CISA website
(original source for the first revision of this article, with kind permission) *
Guido Beltramini
Guido Beltramini (born in Schio (Vicenza), April 28, 1961) is an Italian architectural historian and a curator.
Biography
Guido Beltramini has been Director of the in Vicenza, Italy since 1991 and he has been Director of the Palladio Museum s ...
and Antonio Padoan, ''Andrea Palladio: atlante delle architetture'', Padova, Marsilio Editori, 2000
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Houses completed in 1586
Pretorio Cividale
Renaissance architecture in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Andrea Palladio buildings