theory

September 2, 2018
Vicentine architect Vincenzo Scamozzi was born on 2 September 1548 in Vicenza.

September 18, 2017
Theorist and painter antonio Bianchini was born in Rome, on 18 September 1803.

August 7, 2017
Architect Vincenzo Scamozzi died on 7 August 1616 in Venice, where he spent the latter part of his career after getting started in his hometown of Vicenza.

November 30, 2013
Happy birthday Andrea Palladio!

August 22, 2013
On this day in 1582, Florentine sculptor Bartolomeo Ammanati published a letter addressed to the Accademia di San Luca (artists’ guild) denouncing the public display of nude sculpture, including his own Neptune Fountain in the Piazza della Signoria of Florence (1560-75).

August 19, 2013
Architect and theorist Andrea Palladio died on this day in 1580 at age 72.