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A pupil of Gian Giorgio Trissino, this man got his start working in monuments and decorative sculpture under Michele Sanmicheli of Verona. His first palazzo, designed for Giovanni Civena, was followed by such constructions as the Palazzo Thiene and the Palazzo Iseppo Porto, a reconstruction of a Roman house. This man's late period includes work in Venice like the facades for San Francesco dela Vigna San Giorgio Maggiore, and his theories are expressed in his Four Books on Architecture. Best known for a symmetric building topped with a dome on the outskirts of Vicenza, for ten points, identify this Renaissance architect whose most famous building is the Villa Rotunda and whose nickname comes from Pallas Athena.
A pupil of Gian Giorgio Trissino, this man got his start working in monuments and decorative sculpture under Michele Sanmicheli of Verona.