<Devised from Prof. Giuseppe Barbieri on behalf of the Vicenzaè Consortium, it synthetizes in 16 minutes the importance of great master Messer Andrea Palladium who, only example to the world, has given its name to an architectonic style: THE PALLADIANISM

AUTHOR'S NOTES
It is not easy to show in few minutes a city, much more if it is that in which one has been born and to which has dedicated many years of study, with the consequence to multiply the sensitive fragments, the hidden stories, the implicits. I have tried to put out my experience matured when I was young, about twenty years ago, when I had the occasion to accompaign in Vicenza some eminent figures of the culture of our time, Jean Starobinski and Jorge Amado, Tzvetan Todorov and René Thom, and many others. I had to show at least an idea of the city, in little more than two hours, and before a convention, adopt a point of view, have clear some thesis. The results were amazing, seeing to grow in those eyes the importance of a city until then considered, not completely to twisted, provincial.
Also this time I have tried to play on the points of view (first part of the video is nearly all from Berico Mount), of having clear a thesis (also thanks to Palladio, Vicenza summarizes dearly the great outcomes ot theItalian architecture between XV and XIX century).
About the contents I have kept on the testimonies of the travellers of the slid centuries: partially because they have watched the city with eyes more attention of the tourists of today, partially because these last ones can try to acknowledge in them, to live again the experiences of Inigo Jones and Wolfgang Goethe. The structure of the video appears rather quick: to give more information and interpretations than simple suggestions. But this drift also from the fact that Vicenza, for a long time, does not know to communicate itself with too much effectiveness, neither to the compatriots, neither to the foreigns. The first spectators have not complaint for this.

Prof. Giuseppe Barbieri
Regular of modern art history
Ca' Foscari University, Venice