Hosted at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza and sponsored by the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (CISA), the Fondazione Canova, and the Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, the exhibition was meant to highlight one aspect of the “enduring influence of Palladio” on architecture beyond Italy. Jefferson, architect” to an audience that is aware of but probably knows little detail about his architectural work. First, it is directed primarily toward a European, specifically Italian, audience-an introduction of “Mr. Two things must be weighed when evaluating this catalogue. And there is the fact that they have both been viewed by subsequent generations of architects and critics as transformational figures who forged new and lasting traditions in the art of building. There is the fact that they are each best known for developing two building types: the villa and urban church in the case of Palladio, and the plantation-villa and the university campus in the case of Jefferson.
There is their shared interest in classicism, but there is also an abiding concern with expedient and novel building innovations. To be sure, there is much that connects Palladio and Jefferson despite their separation in time, their radically different historical circumstances, their architectural training, and the large disparity in the quantity and range of their building (Palladio far outstrips Jefferson). 3 This catalogue hews to the established conventions of this approach. 2 Jefferson and Palladio have been studied together before, usually under the guise of tracing Palladio’s legacy for future generations of architects.
Kimball argued that American classical architecture “traces its ancestry to Jefferson, who may truly be called the father of our national architecture.” 1 Meanwhile, scholars and other admirers of Palladio, who is easily one of the most studied architects in history, continue to publish on all aspects of his life and work. Jefferson’s architectural pursuits have been a continuous area of research since Fiske Kimball’s 1916 monograph, which was based on a systematic examination of Jefferson’s drawings. The names of Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) and Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), appearing in the title of this exhibition catalogue, are well known to architectural historians in Europe and the United States. Ranogajec Edited by Guido Beltramini and Fulvio LenzoĮxh.
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