Palazzo Schio description and photos - Italy: Vicenza (Topic)

Palazzo Schio description and photos - Italy: Vicenza. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Palazzo Schio.

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Palazzo Schio is an aristocratic 16th century palace in Vicenza, whose facade was designed by Andrea Palladio in 1560. The great architect started designing the facade at the request of Bernardo Schio, who decided to build a family residence in the Ponte Pusterla area. But since in those same years Palladio was working on a series of projects in Venice that required his personal presence in the capital of the Venetian Republic, his participation in the construction work of Palazzo Schio became so insignificant that the foreman of masons hired by him was forced to suspend the construction until further clear instructions. After the death of Bernardo Schio, his widow showed no interest in completing the work on the Palazzo, and it was completed only at the initiative of Bernardo's brother, Fabrizio, in 1574-75.

The facade of the building facing the street is relatively narrow. Palladio decided to divide his "drunken nobile" into three arches of equal width with the help of four semi-columns with Corinthian capitals. The space between the columns is occupied by three windows with an overhanging balcony, each of which is topped with a strongly protruding triangular pediment. The top floor was once occupied by three other windows that were supposed to illuminate the storage rooms and which were walled up in 1825.

The facade of Palazzo Schio is also enlivened by the play of light and shadow, created by the use of multiple layers of depth in the arrangement of columns, moldings and balconies of windows, and a pediment.

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