Andrea Palladio

No other architect in the history of Western art has had an influence so spontaneous and yet so enduring as Andrea Palladio. Palladianism broke through all cultural stylistic barriers. It spread not only throughout the Neo-Latin nations but held Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the countries of Eastern Europe in its sway and formed the lineaments of English architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Professor Manfred Wundram describes Palladio's works on a fascunating journey between Padua and Udine. The Italian photographer Paolo Marton has photographed Palladio's palaces, villas and sacred buildings with great empathy.