University of St Andrews

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SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 2

Planned timetable: TBC

When Andrea Palladio received his first commissions in Venice, he was already a well-known architect: his Venetian works were to occupy the last decades of his life (he died in 1580 at the age of 72). In Venice Palladio was able to develop a new kind of relationship between an architect and his patrons, one in which he was often more an intellectual collaborator than a craftsman for hire. The module is organised around the different types of patron: patriarchs of the Church, religious communities, the state, and charitable institutions. Historical narratives, the agendas of patronage, secular and religious politics, architectural conception, and the various decorative programmes will all be considered in order to paint a vivid portrait of Palladio's Venice.

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