The Villas Of Palladio

Author : Kim Williams,Giovanni Giaconi,Andrea Palladio
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568983967

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The Villas of Palladio by Kim Williams,Giovanni Giaconi,Andrea Palladio Pdf

The Renaissance architect and builder Andrea Palladio is arguable the most influential architect in Western history, and certainly the most beloved. His sixteenth-century villas in the Italian Veneto revolutionized the course of architecture, and the principles on which he based his work are still felt today. For the past several years, Italian watercolorist Giovanni Giaconi has devoted his talents to creating exquisite large-format pen-and-ink watercolor renderings of all thirty-two of Palladio's villas. Each drawing captures the timeless beauty of Palladian architecture and provides a detailed record of these masterpieces. Together with brief descriptions of each villa, samples of Giaconi's preparatory sketches, and where available, Palladio's own woodcuts, these works of art leave a deep impression of Palladio's oeuvre and give the reader an opportunity to compare the original designs with the actual buildings and their present state of conservation. This beautiful book is a must-have and the perfect gift for architects, travelers, and lovers of Italy and Palladio's architecture.

Author : George L. Hersey,Richard Freedman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262082101

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Possible Palladian Villas by George L. Hersey,Richard Freedman Pdf

Drawing on Palladio's original published legacy of approximately 40 designs, the authors attempt to reveal the rigorous geometric rules by which Palladio conceived these structures. Using a computer, they test each rule in every possible application.

Author : Vincent Joseph Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Country homes
ISBN : OCLC:1311139317

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The Villas of Palladio by Vincent Joseph Scully Pdf

Author : Paul Holberton
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719549647

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Palladio's Villas by Paul Holberton Pdf

Palladio became one of the most influential architects in history and his villas designed in the countryside around Venice are amongst the most beautiful houses ever built. They aimed to express the ideals of reason, humanity and civilization in Renaissance life and to provide practical settings from which the sophisticated merchants or gentry from Vicenzia and Venice could exercise their privileges as landowners and their responsibilities as farmers. In this illustrated book the author explores special qualities of the architecture, provides a guide for visitors, and also sets them among the people, practicalities and beliefs which gave them life.

Author : Gerrit Smienk,Johannes Niemeijer
Publisher : Birkhaüser
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3034607121

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Palladio, the Villa and the Landscape by Gerrit Smienk,Johannes Niemeijer Pdf

Studies the relationship between Palladian villas in the Veneto and the landscape, demonstrating how each was sited to enhance the drama of the overall architectural ensemble.

Author : James S. Ackerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Neoclassicism (Architecture)
ISBN : UOM:39015006725629

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Palladio's Villas by James S. Ackerman Pdf

Author : Antonio Foscari
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3037786388

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Living with Palladio in the Sixteenth Century by Antonio Foscari Pdf

Visiting the villas built by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one inevitably asks oneself how people lived there in the sixteenth century. Palladio articulated the villas as "small towns" (piccole città) that formed a unit with adjacent service buildings and farm fields. Within their walls lived a multitude of people of all ages, social backgrounds and various skills. They were the venue for significant moments of public life. In these houses, the principles of hygiene, privacy and comfort, which we consider essential today, did not apply; furniture as such, did not exist. Living with Palladio in the Sixteenth Century investigates how Palladio's houses, their floors, rooms and measurements are designed to structure the life of such a heterogeneous family of people. It analyzes their hierarchical structure with the owner (padrone) at the top and everyone involved in the everyday running of the household (famiglia minuta) at the bottom. This book fills a decisive gap in research literature on the famous Italian architect by looking at how Palladio prioritized the domestic functions of his private buildings.

Author : Donata Battilotti
Publisher : Mondadori Electa
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8843553232

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The Villas of Palladio by Donata Battilotti Pdf

Author : James Ackerman,Phyllis Massar
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991-07-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780141936383

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Palladio by James Ackerman,Phyllis Massar Pdf

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.

Author : Luca Trevisan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115311107

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Palladio. The Villas. Ediz. Illustrata by Luca Trevisan Pdf

Author : Sally Gable,Carl I. Gable
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307489340

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Palladian Days by Sally Gable,Carl I. Gable Pdf

“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 : Tracy Elizabeth Cooper,Andrea Palladio
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300105827

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Palladio's Venice : Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic by Tracy Elizabeth Cooper,Andrea Palladio Pdf

A glamorous and unprecedented exploration of Palladio's work in one of the most beautiful of all cities

Author : Donata Battilotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015025182281

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The Villas of Palladio by Donata Battilotti Pdf

Author : James S. Ackerman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691252315

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The Villa by James S. Ackerman Pdf

A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper) In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the “country place” as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. “The villa,” he reminds us, “accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality.” As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architect’s imagination.

Author : Caroline Constant
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1878271857

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The Palladio Guide by Caroline Constant Pdf

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.