About 40 miles from Venice’s winding waterways and busy plazas lies Vicenza, an elegant Renaissance jewel. To visit Vicenza is to breathe in the genius of one of history’s most influential architects, ...

The work of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-80) resembles a magnificent symphony of stillness that champions the combined beauty of order and symmetry. The palaces, villas and ...

As Europe emerged from the stagnation of the Middle Ages and the devastation wrought by the bubonic plague, there was a dramatic shift towards new intellectual, artistic, scientific, and economic ...

MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Five hundred years since the birth of Andrea Palladio, a new international exhibition opens Saturday in Italy with a sweeping portrait of the skilled stonemason who became one ...