Andrea Palladio

A fortunate orphan, then, who little by little learned the secrets of an ancient craft, made up of profound knowledge of materials and skillful manual dexterity, but also the ability to understand the wishes of clients. Training as a stone mason, and not within a painter's or sculptor's workshop, is one of the elements that characterize Palladio's artistic identity, for the habit of drawing as a tool aimed at construction, for the ability in bending techniques to expressive needs, for the conception of architecture as a system, founded on models and reference schemes.

In the workshop of the masters da Pedemuro, as time goes by Andrea will be judged ready to work in a real building site, Villa Cricoli, today Villa Trissino Trettenero, where he meets the person who will change his life...and his name, namely Giangiorgio Trissino, a well-rounded intellectual and highly cultured man: poet, playwright, scholar of Latin, Greek, music, architecture, philosophy. He will be fundamental to Andrea's human and professional development, for he becomes a true mentor to him, so much so that he creates for him the name by which he will go down in history: Palladio.