Palazzo Dalla Torre [SEP] architect
Palazzo Dalla Torre
Palazzo Dalla Torre is a patrician palace in Verona, northern Italy, designed by architect Andrea Palladio for Giambattista Dalla Torre. The "palazzo" was probably built from 1555, but remained unfinished. Allied bombardment in 1945 demolished a great part of the building. However, conspicuous remains of Palladio’s construction survive: the majestic access portal and a courtyard with columns and entablature.
Building.
Palladio’s only work in the city of Verona, Palazzo Dalla Torre is somewhat of a mystery. If the
palace from Palladio, Palazzo Thiene), 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.
External links.
- Palazzo Dalla Torre in the CISA website (source for the first revision of this article, with kind permission)