Palazzo Chericati

Question 1

Date

Answer 1

1550

Question 2

Name and spelling

Answer 2

Palazzo Chiericati

Question 3

Where

Answer 3

Vicenza

Question 4

Material

Answer 4

Brick covered in stucco

Question 5

Commissioned by

Answer 5

Girolamo Chiericati (count, knight and nobleman)

Question 6

What type of architecture and what are it’s typical characteristics

Answer 6

Palladian
high podiums
grand staircases
portico temple front
geometric forms
underground cellars and service quarters
status of client reflected in architecture and influence of antiquity

Question 7

Architect

Answer 7

Andrea Palladio

Question 8

Number of bays

Answer 8

11

Question 9

Number of story’s

Answer 9

2

Question 10

Where is there an open loggia

Answer 10

On the ground floor and on the right and left sides of the central walled section of the 1st floor

Question 11

It is built on an incline. Used to be?

Answer 11

Used to be used as a cattle ground and used to have a river running on either side.
It is built on a rise- good flooding prevention

Question 12

Raised how high

Answer 12

5ft

with grand staircase and service quarters and underground cellars

Question 13

What order columns

Answer 13

Roman Doric on the ground story loggia with Doric pilasters on the back wall I between the windows
Ionic columns on plinths on 1st storey with balustrades in between each plinth and half columns on walled section