Palazzo Chiericati (Vicenza)
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The Chiericati Palace is a Renaissance building in the northern Italian city of Vicenza . The building at today's Piazza Mateotti (formerly Piazza d'Isola) - in the immediate vicinity of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico - stands slightly elevated on a crepe borrowed from classical antiquity to protect it from the frequent floods.
Today it is home to the Vicenza Municipal Art Gallery. Among the most important works "Diana and Atteone" (1725) by Giambattista Pittoni . Together with other Palladian villas in northern Italy, the palace was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994 .
Building history
The Chiericati Palace was designed in 1550 by the architect Andrea Palladio for Count Girolamo Chiericati. The client was so impressed by the basilica in Vicenza, which had also been redesigned by Palladio and inaugurated in 1549, that he wanted to use the style as a model for his house. Construction began in 1551, but was interrupted by the Count's death in 1557. Further work was commissioned by the Count's son, Valerio Chiericati, but only for the interior decoration. The building stood there as an unfinished construction site for almost a century. Nonetheless, Valerio Chiericati moved into the palace as early as 1570 and lived there until his death in 1609. The Chiericati palace was probably not finally completed until 1680 under the direction of the architect Carlo Borella.
Architecture and equipment
Numerous style elements from classical antiquity have been used. The main facade consists of three loggias on the ground floor , while the middle part is closed on the upper floor. The upper columns are Ionic , the lower Doric . The floor plan of the palace is strictly symmetrical around an inner courtyard. The entrance facade faces the Piazza Mateotti with the central portico from which one can access the vestibule. Above is the large hall, the area of which extends to the pillars of the upper floor ( piano nobile ). This creates the façade structure that is characteristic of the palace with the continuous loggia on the ground floor and the five window openings above the entrance.
The cornice of the building was adorned around 1700 with statues and candelabras that were not included in Palladio's original design. Both the ceilings of the loggias and the interiors are richly decorated. On the ground floor are the frescoes by Domenico Brusasorzi (Room of the Firmament and Hercules) and Giovanni Battista Zelotti (Room of the Council of Gods). The stucco work and gilding were done by Bartolomeo Ridolfi and the grotesques by Eliodoro Forbicini. The frescoes on the upper floor were done by Domenico Brusasorzi (Room of Virtues) and Battista del Moro (Room of the Trajan Column). The sixteenth-century part of the palace is decorated with paintings by Cristoforo Menarola (apotheosis of the Chiericati and Tondi families with allegorical figures) and Bartolomeo Cittadella.
Ceiling detail in one of the two loggias on the upper floor
Ceiling painting in the entrance hall
Ground floor plan, drawing by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi from 1776
museum
In 1838 the city of Vicenza bought the building from the Chiericati family with the aim of housing the municipal art collection there. After extensive renovation by the architects Giambattista Berti and Miglioranza, the Museo Civico was inaugurated in 1855. The basis of the collection comes from generous donations by Vincentian citizens from the 18th century, including paintings by Tintoretto , Anthonis van Dyck , Sebastiano and Marco Ricci , Luca Giordano , Tiepolo and Piazzetta .
The collection includes paintings, sculptures, prints and graphics, and a coin collection. 33 drawings by Palladio were donated to the museum by Gaetano Pinali in 1839. Among the paintings are a number of important altarpieces from the church of the former Ospedale San Bortolo , including works by Bartolomeo Montagna , Giovanni Bonconsiglio , Cima da Conegliano , Giovanni Speranza and Marcello Fogolino . Among the non-sacred images there are seven lunettes on the subject of "Glorification of Venetian Podestà " by Jacopo Bassano , Francesco Maffei and Giulio Carpioni .
The latest donation comes from the estate of the publisher and author Neri Pozza (1912–1988), who bequeathed his collection of contemporary art to the city of Vicenza. It includes u. a. Works by Carlo Carrà , Filippo De Pisis , Virgilio Guidi, Osvaldo Licini , Ottone Rosai , Gino Severini , Emilio Vedova , Mario Mafai , Arturo Martini and Pablo Picasso .
literature
- Manfred Wundram (ed.): Reclam's art guide Italy. Volume 2: Upper Italy East (= Reclams Universal Library . 10001/16). Edited by Erich Egg , Erich Hubala u. a. Reclam, Stuttgart 1965, pp. 1123-1125.
- Ackerman, James: Palladio . Stuttgart 1980.
- Beltramini, Guido; Burns, Howard [Ed.]: Palladio . Royal Academy of Arts, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-905711-24-6 .
- Berger, Ursel: Palladio's early work, buildings and drawings . Cologne / Vienna 1978.
- Classen, Helge: Palladio, on the trail of a legend . Harenberg, Dortmund 1987, ISBN 3-88379-510-0 .
- Constant, Caroline: The Palladian Guide . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-528-08724-2 .
- Palladio, Andrea quoted. after: Beyer, Andreas; Schütte, Ulrich: The four books on architecture . Verlag für Architektur Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7608-8116-5 .
- Puppi, Lionello: Andrea Palladio, The Complete Works . German publishing house, Stuttgart / Munich 2000.
- Wundram, Manfred; Pape, Thomas: Andrea Palladio, architect between Renaissance and Baroque, Cologne 1988.
- Zimmermanns, Klaus: The Veneto, Verona - Vicenza - Padua . DuMont, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-2014-0 , p. 121 . ( google books )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/712
- ↑ Manfred Wundram , Thomas Pape: Andrea Palladio. 1508-1580. Architect between Renaissance and Baroque. Benedikt Taschen, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-8228-0098-8 .
- ^ Palladio: I quattro libri dell'architettura. 1570.
Web links
- official website in English and Italian
- Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
- Palladio Museum
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Coordinates: 45 ° 32 ′ 57 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 57 ″ E