Not that any fault can be found with S.Giorgio Maggiore as a detail in the landscape: to me it will always be the perfect disposition of buildings in the perfect place; but then, on the other hand, the campanile was not Palladio's, nor was the facade, while the principal attraction of his dome is its green copper.

The church of the Redentore, on the Giudecca, is much more thoroughly Palladian.
Andrea Palladio was born in Vicenza in 1518.

In Venice he built S.
Giorgio Maggiore (all but the facade), the facade of S.Francesco della Vigna, the Redentore, Le Zitelle and S.Lucia.Such was Palladio's influence that for centuries he practically governed European architecture.

Our own St.Paul's would be very different but for him.

He died in 1580 and was buried at Vicenza.