Abstract:Vincenzo Scamozzi was one of a generation of architects who were profoundly and directly influenced by Andrea Palladio, and one of the key figures in bringing his ideas and works to the forefront of northern Europe and the world. Yet for a long time, the intellectual differences between the two have often been overlooked. This essay begins with Vincenzo Scamozzi’s early schooling and study tours, and attempts to trace the way in which the young Scamozzi emerged from the vast shadow left by Palladio’s legacy and eventually transcended its influence. The central part of the essay is a comparison of Scamozzi’s important early work Rocca Pisana and Palladio’s late work La Rotonda, which are interrelated and representative of each, and extends to Scamozzi’s theoretical writing in order to glimpse the macro-chronological and intellectual-historical context behind this epistemological shift.
