Author : Caroline Constant
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781878271853
Designed for anyone with an interest in touring major architectural works, the Guidebooks contain historical and descriptive information on key buildings, and practical information including maps, directions, addresses, and references for further reading.
Author : Caroline Constant
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
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ISBN : 9780317539684
Author : Architect Andrea Palladio
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300109092
Andrea Palladio (1508�-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome’s ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next. He also described ancient Roman rituals of birth, marriage, and death. Here translated into English and joined in a single volume for the first time, Palladio’s guidebooks allow modern visitors to enjoy Rome exactly as their predecessors did 450 years ago. Like the originals, this new edition is pocket-sized and therefore easily read on site. Enhanced with illustrations and commentary, the book also includes the first full English translation of Raphael’s famous letter to Pope Leo X on the monuments of ancient Rome. For architectural historians, tourists, and armchair travelers, this book offers fresh and surprising insights into the antiquarian and ecclesiastical preoccupations of one of the greatest of the Renaissance architectural masters.
Author : Henry Hope Reed
Publisher : New York : Dover Publications
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
This volume is a magnificent grand tour of Palladio's monumental villas, palaces, and churches, plus many famous and striking buildings in Great Britain and America that show Palladian influence.
Author : James Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1991-07-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 014193638X
Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn and tries to penetrate to the heart of the Palladian miracle. Palladio's theoretical writings are important and illuminating, he suggests, yet they never do justice to the intense intuitive skills of "a magician of light and colour". Indeed, as the photographs in this book reveal, Palladio was "as sensual, as skilled in visual alchemy as any Venetian painter of his time", and his countless imitators have usually captured the details, but not the essence of his style. There are buildings all the way from Philadelphia to Leningrad which bear witness to Palladio's "permanent place in the making of architecture", yet he also deserves to be seen on his own terms.
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2014
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ISBN : 9788831719179
Author : Andrea Palladio
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781017473704
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sally Gable
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307489345
“Palladian Days is nothing short of wonderful–part adventure, mystery, history, diary, and even cookbook. The Gables’ lively account captures the excitement of their acquisition and restoration of one of the greatest houses in Italy. Beguiled by Palladio and the town of Piombino Dese, they trace the history of the Villa Cornaro and their absorption of Italian life. Bravo!” –Susan R. Stein, Gilder Curator and Vice President of Museum Programs, MonticelloIn 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio built Villa Cornaro. In 1989, Sally and Carl Gable became its bemused new owners. Called by Town & Country one of the ten most influential buildings in the world, the villa is the centerpiece of the Gables’ enchanting journey into the life of a place that transformed their own. From the villa’s history and its architectural pleasures, to the lives of its former inhabitants, to the charms of the little town that surrounds it, this loving account brings generosity, humor, and a sense of discovery to the story of small-town Italy and its larger national history.
Author : Bruce Boucher
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780789203007
Andrea Palladio (1508-1589) was one of the most creative architects the world has ever known; many consider his villas, palaces, and churches the epitome of Renaissance ideals. Though his buildings have often been photographed and numerous specialized studies have been written about his career, never before have Palladio's life and times been brought together in a narrative as incisive as this one. Richly illustrated with specially commissioned photographs as well as period plans and drawings, this volume defines Palladio's remarkable career against the backdrop of the dramatic events and personalities of the age, while the buildings are discussed in terms of their importance in art history.
Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780743205870
From "one of our most original, accessible, and stimulating writers on architecture" ("Library Journal") comes a captivating account of the life and work of Andrea Palladio, the father of domestic architecture.
