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The Palladian Idealby Joseph Rykwert, Roberto Schezen (Photographer) Hardcover - 228 pages (January 2000) Rizzoli ISBN: 0847821587 Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 11.44 x 11.47 Check price and buy it at: amazon.com , amazon.co.uk Book Description The sixteenth-century builder Andrea Palladio of Vicenza was to become one of the most influential architects of all time. His famous and beautiful villas, built in the mainland territories of the Venetian Republic, provided his contemporaries and successors with a model for interpreting antique architecture through complex yet graceful proportion and simple, sometimes even stark, ornament. In this extraordinarily beautiful volume, Rykwert and Schezen present several of Palladio's most important country villas, as well as well-known later works by others that continue the Palladian tradition, including Colen Campbell's Mereworth Castle and Lord Burlingtron's Chiswick House in England.
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