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Details from the Palazzo Valmarana

Attributed to Inigo Jones (c.1610)

RIBA Library Drawings Collection

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King Charles II Block, Royal Naval College

John Webb (c.1663)

RIBA Library Drawings Collection

The other side of Palladio's drawing of the Palazzo Valmarana |contains details of the building. The drawings are by an unknown draughtsman. Many historians believe they are the work of Inigo Jones|.

Inigo Jones travelled to Italy in 1614 to study the work of Palladio and his contemporaries. He took his copy of I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura |with him, making notes and annotating the text as he studied the buildings. In Vicenza he bought most of the drawings by Palladio held in the RIBA collections today.

It may be that Jones drew on the back of Palladio's drawing of the Palazzo Valmarana whilst observing the building. He was certainly influenced by the design of the Palazzo Valmarana and took many ideas from it back to Britain.

The drawing on the right is a design for the King Charles II block of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich by John Webb|, Jones's pupil. Designed in 1663, details such as the use of the Giant order and channelled rustication on the façade show the influence of the Palazzo Valmarana and the Palazzo Barbaran.