Andrea Palladio, pseudonym of Andrea di Pietro della Gondola (November 30, 1508 - August 19, 1580), was the most important architect of the Venetian Republic in whose territory he designed several villas, what made him famous, as well as churches and palaces, these latter mainly in Vicenza.
In Vicenza the young stonemason was fully acquainted with ancient art, he trained as an architect and lived realizing the desire of the humanists to revive the harmony canons codified by Vitruvius, who inspired a dream of beauty which Palladio sought throughout his life.