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With his projects for villas and bridges in the Veneto countryside, buildings and theatres in Vicenza, churches and convents in Venice, the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (Padua, 30 November 1508—Venice, 19 August 1580) has greatly influenced the history of western architecture over recent centuries. The buildings that have made Palladio famous throughout the world are definitely the many country villas, designed for nobles from Vicenza and Venice, but his Quattro Libri was also highly successful, the treatise in which he illustrated the rules of his architecture.

The presence of many of Palladio’s drawings in English (taken there by Inigo Jones from 1614) greatly influenced British and Northern European architecture in general and also that in America.