Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps the most important figure there between Andrea Palladio, whose unfinished projects he inherited at Palladio's death in 1580, and Baldassarre Longhena, Scamozzi's only pupil.
Portrait of Vincenzo Scamozzi by Paolo Veronese
Monument to Vincenzo Scamozzi. Church of San Lorenzo, Vicenza.
L'idea della Architettura universale di Vincenzo Scamozzi architetto veneto, 1615.
Villa Molin at Mandria, south of Padua.
Vicenza is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the River Bacchiglione. Vicenza is approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Venice and 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Milan.
Clockwise from top: Villa La Rotonda; the classical temple in the Parco Querini; Piazza dei Signori; the Renaissance Basilica Palladiana; and a panorama of the city from the Monte Berico
Piazza dei Signori
Panoramic view from Monte Berico
Basilica Palladiana