|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. secret scene of a city |
||
|
|
Monday anyone of February before carnival, Venice seems to us too gray to venture itself among his you fold humid. Venice is necessary to live it to total sun, with little clothes and desire to put the city in the body. With clouds and cold the city seemed to shrink, to coil itself in if same, hiding its better brightness in the channels. For that reason, today it is the day in order to go inland, going to the search of the work of Andrea Palladio, one of the main architects of the Italian Renaissance. In these latitudes, to say Palladio is to say Vicenza, a city of pocket of about 80 thousand inhabitants located between Venice and Verona. For history, to say Palladio also is to aim at the roots of the English and North American neoclassic architecture. This Monday, Vicenza is of curtains and doors closed in the stores and the museums, with streets inhabited only by the clergymen, the civil employees and the doves. To its way and persistence, each one of these personages acts anonymously in the secret scene of a city, vetoed for the visitor who as I it arrives overseas. |
|
 |
||
|
2. basilicas and palaces |
||
|
|
||
|
The morning has long silencios, that are broken once in a while by the echoes of one rain that forces to us to shelter to us in the porches of the main street. Vicenza is a city of a single street, the privateering Andrea Palladio . All the others, are short cuts of ascent and slope to be of unexpected with the work of this architect of the milquinientos, distributed all over the old helmet. To a side are the palaces and to the other, the basilicas or only the palladiana Basilica. If You have the opportunity to visit the city, she takes the high street and to the fourth intersection she twists to the right. There one will be point-blank with a powerful medieval brick ship, run aground on the stone pavement of the Piazza dei Signori and catched by the marble networks that the Palladio wove like a columnata double, transforming it into one of the main poetic civil units of the architectonic one of Vicenza. This Palazzo della Ragione, more known like Basilica, will be the departure point to go by a constructed city to eaves of an author. |
|
|
||
|
3. architecture to droughts |
||
|
|
||
|
|
Although the understood ones consider other works like those of greater power, Palladio never will let love the Basilica, their first professional order in solitaire, that allowed him to make the transit from the youthful office of stonecutter to the one of architect. Architect to droughts, in a time that stops to exercise the architecture was necessary to be escultor painter or, as Miguel Angel and Bernini went at their moment and to its way . In Olympic theater located in the Matteotti seat, or the Loggia Valmarana we could feel genius of the teacher. But, to be with the pauses and silencios essential to taste the beauty, it is necessary to put entremedio of the porches of the basilica of Vicenza. The architecture of the Basilica is an opportunity to solve, from the classic orders, the technical questions that integration with an existing building of irregular construction raises. But, also it is the fehaciente demonstration that allows him to announce that already he was ready to undertake the trip in solitaire, far from the perplexity of its teachers. |
|
|
4. to perforate the space |
||
|
The buildings previous to the Basilica?el Thiene palace, by example exhibit a noticeable hermetism in their internal disposition, leaving in the backing of the walls all the weight of the relation with the street. Of there in ahead, Palladio for of abilities that allow him to confer to the facades new thicknesses of light and shade, by means of the incorporation of the classic column in the residential architecture and the allocation of a paper to the emptiness that it precedes to the architectonic fact. In the Valmarana palace, located in the Fogazzaro privateering, the architect proposes the predominance of the bays remarcados by pilasters, with the purpose of generating a permeability that retranquee the frontal plane and thus to surpass the visual volcamiento of the volume on a street extremely narrows. With the same argument, Palladio raises in the Chiericcati palace a aporticada gallery double with the objective to take control of an urban espacialidad highly culturalizada. The good architecture is an office of solitudes, a transit by the inclemency of the many resolutions that raises its construction. |
|
|
||
|
5. patrimony of the humanity |
||
|
|
||
|
The historical nucleus of the city, that is located between the rivers Bacchiglione and Retrone, it lodges an important part of the civil work of Palladio. If You take the street from Monte next to the Loggia of the Capitaniato, she will leave the Basilica back for found with the palaces. Towards the north they are the palaces Thiene and Barbaran more. A little more far, almost in the doors of the old nucleus, the palaces Bonin Longare and Porto Breganze. In this last one the order appears to columnar colossal, applied by the teacher in the venecianas churches. Unlike the architectures already finished, great part of the buildings palladianos wake up the emotion of works still to finish. It opens the opportunity so that You and I, elliptically, participate in the definitive construction. Other cities of the peninsula have a greater repertoire of unit architectonic. What we could say of Rome, Florence and Venice that no longer have been written?. Vicenza only has to Palladio and its architecture, and nothing else. Why more, if with it it is enough to him to be considered patrimony of the humanity. Jonás Figueroa, 2002. |
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
http://urbanismo.8m.com |
|
|
|
 |
|
palladian basílic |
 |
|
chiericati palace |
 |
|
bonin - longare palace |
