Vicenza
Northern Italian city
Vicenza is a city in northeastern Italy, in the Veneto region northwest of Venice.
It is renowned for the Renaissance architecture of Andrea Palladio, whose buildings there are UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The city is also a center of gold jewelry manufacturing and textile production.
Movement emulating antiquity's forms
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- pedimentTriangular architectural crowning element
column · Ionic · Doric · Corinthian · entablature · capitals · pilaster · frieze
Lagoon city, northeastern Italy
Venetian rococo painter
- GoetheGerman poet-dramatist, 1749-1832
- frescoesPaintings on fresh plaster
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- operaTheatrical art combining song
Element seventy-nine
- jewelryOrnamental personal accessories
- goldsmithingCrafting items from gold
- metalworkShaped metal objects
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
textiles · tanning · machinery · trade fair · craftsmanship · artisan · export
neoclassicism
Movement emulating antiquity's forms
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- porticoColumned covered entryway
pediment · column · Ionic · Doric · Corinthian · entablature · capitals · pilaster · frieze · architrave
Venice
Lagoon city, northeastern Italy
Tiepolo
Venetian rococo painter
- GoetheGerman poet-dramatist, 1749-1832
- frescoesPaintings on fresh plaster
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
opera · carnival · patron saint · festival · pilgrimage
gold
Element seventy-nine
- jewelryOrnamental personal accessories
- goldsmithingCrafting items from gold
- metalworkShaped metal objects
manufacturing · textiles · tanning · machinery · trade fair · craftsmanship · artisan · export
risotto
Creamy Italian grain dish