Vincenzo Scamozzi, trained by his father, Bertotti,…
1585 CE
Vincenzo Scamozzi, trained by his father, Bertotti, an architect, had studied in Venice and Rome and traveled widely through western Europe.
The classicizing influence of Andrea Palladio and Sebastiano Serlio is evident in the palaces, villas, and churches that Scamozzi has designed in Venice, Vicenza, Padua, and elsewhere in Italy.
His designs for villas and town palaces, which are sometimes adaptations of buildings by Palladio, will influence English Neoclassical architecture from Inigo Jones onward.
Scamozzi is also an important theater architect who tries to integrate stage settings into the surrounding space.
He completes Palladio's Teatro Olimpico in 1585, adding to it the model streets behind the doorways of the frons scaenae; these streets are constructed of timber and plaster on a raking stage and arranged so that each member of the audience can see into at least one of them.