The Venetian Arcadia

 

Andrea Palladio and the reinvention of the antique

 


 

Rebecca Jade Chandler

 

 

This thesis was submitted in June 2003
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
of Honours in Art History and Curatorship
at the Australian National University

CONTENTS

 

 

Introduction                                                                                                  

 

PART I            THE VENETO AND THE MYTH OF VENICE

 

Chapter 1       Venice, the Terraferma and the antique                             

Chapter 2       Virtus Romana and The Myth of Venice                            

Chapter 3       Vicenza and the well designed Republic                            

 

PART II           PALLADIO, INGEGNO AND HEROIC VIRTUE

 

Chapter 4       Vicenza and the heroic cityscape                                        

Chapter 5       Villa Barbaro: architecture, knowledge and Arcadia        

Chapter 6       Invenzione and the Tempietto at Maser                              

Chapter 7       The Rotunda and the dream of Arcadia                             

Chapter 8       The Teatro Olimpico and the Imago Mundi                       

 

Conclusion                                                                                                    

Bibliography                                                                                                 

 

 

Acknowledgements

 

 

Special thanks and kisses go to Mum, Dad, Myles, Oscar and Udo for always being there for me and looking after me, to Grandad for his enormous help and to Michael Greenhalgh whose encyclopaedic knowledge and many interests have always been an inspiration to me.  Thanks also to all my friends and colleagues who have been so motivating and supportive, especially Rebecca Elliott.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frontispiece: Palladio: design for La Rotunda in Il Quattro Libri.[i]


[i] Image from: Palladio, A. I Quattro Libri Dell’ Architettura, 1980, p.90