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In 1560 Paolo Almerico asked the Cathedral Chapter for permission to erect a portal at his own expense on the north side of the Cathedral, in correspondence with the chapel of San Giovanni Evangelista. This is the same Paolo Almerico who a few years later would commission the construction of the Villa Rotonda from Palladio. The portal was opened in 1565, probably on the occasion of the solemn entrance of the bishop Matteo Priuli.
In the absence of documents or autograph drawings, the attribution to Palladio rests firstly on the portal’s affinities with antique models well known to the architect (like the portal of the Temple of Fortuna Virile) and secondly its similarity to the design of the lateral portals of the Cathedral of San Pietro di Castello in Venice, which Palladio designed in 1558.
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