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VICENZA – PALLADIO (1508 – 1580)
“Beauty will derive from a graceful shape and the relationship of the whole to the parts, and of the parts among themselves and to the whole, because buildings must appear to be like complete and well-defined bodies, of which one member matches another and all the members are necessary for what is required.” (A. Palladio)
PADOVA - GIOTTO (1267 ca – 1337)
“...whose genius was of such excellence that with his art and brush or crayon he painted anything in Nature, the mother and mover of all things under the perpetual turning of the heavens, and painted them so like that they seemed not so much likenesses as the things in themselves; whereby it often happened that men's visual sense was deceived, and they thought that to be real which was only painted.” (G. Boccaccio, DECAMERONE)
VENEZIA – CANALETTO (1697 – 1768)
“Pittor di vedute, al quale e nella intelligenza e nel gusto e nella verità, pochi tra gli scorsi e nessuno tra i presenti si può trovar che si accostino” (A.M.Zanetti)
MANTOVA – MANTEGNA (1431-1506 )
"...he showed that he knew how to take the good from living and natural objects as well as from those created by art. But with all this, Andrea always believed that good classical statues were more perfect and possessed more beautiful parts than is shown by nature, because those excellent masters, according to what he judged and what he has seen in those statues, had taken the perfection of nature from many living persons..." (G.Vasari, LE VITE)