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What design did Andrea Palladio create for the chapel at Maser late in his life?
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Andrea Palladio
Villa Rotonda, near Vicenza, Italy, by Andrea Palladio, 1550–51.
In 1579, late in his life, Andrea Palladio designed a central-plan church to serve as a chapel at Maser. The structure is a shallow Greek cross covered by a circular dome. Unlike his other church designs, which often featured chaste, undecorated white interiors, the chapel at Maser is characterized by complex decoration across all its surfaces, a style that relates it more closely to his late palace designs.1