Date

Circa 1910

About 1534, Sanmicheli was commissioned to redevelop the frontal section of the Palazzo Bevilacqua in Verona, an enormous medieval complex facing on to the present Corso Cavour. The façade, which was the first in Verona to be faced entirely in stone, is one of the most spectacular and rhythmically complex of the period. The arched bays of the rusticated lower storey alternate in width and are divided by banded Doric pilasters that support an entablature, with triglyphs ingeniously made into corbels to support a continuous balcony, an idea derived from Baldassare Peruzzi or Serlio. The outlandish piano nobile above is close in composition to that of Sansovino's elaborate design for the Scuola della Misericordia (1531), Venice.