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PALLADIO AND THE VENETO | Palazzo Dalla Torre - Verona - (c. 1555) | ||||||||||||||||
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Palladio’s only work in the city of Verona, Palazzo Dalla Torre is a fascinating conundrum. If the dating is uncertain (the majority of scholars dates the beginning of construction to 1555), equally vague is our knowledge of the building’s actual form. This was only partially executed and can be reconstructed, therefore, only from the plate in the Quattro Libri, in this case particularly unfaithful. Allied bombardment in 1945 compromised the situation still further, causing the demolition of a great part of the construction. However, conspicuous remains of Palladio’s building survive: the majestic access portal and a courtyard with columns and trabeation. There are no doubts, however, about the identity of the patron, Giambattista Dalla Torre. Tied by familial bonds to the Vicentine Valmarana and Marcantonio Thiene (who commissioned his family palace from Palladio), he was a friend of intellectuals and artists; above all Giangiorgio Trissino, but also the great geographer Giambattista Ramusio, the doctor Giovanni Fracastoro and the architect Michele Sanmicheli. |
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