Scamozzi, Vincenzo (1552–1616)

Italian architect and writer on architecture, born at Vicenza, the most important of Andrea Palladio's followers. He completed the church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice after Palladio's death. His other buildings include the Villa Molin alla Mandria near Padua (about 1597), the Procuratie Nuove (1582) in St Mark's Square in Venice (based on Sansovino's library), the Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni (also in Venice), and the cathedral at Palmanuova.

His book L'Idea dell'Architettura Universale/Concept of Universal Architecture, the last and most academic of the theoretical works of the Renaissance period, appeared in 1615 (in English in 1669). It contained the definitive analysis of the classical orders of architecture.