The Villas of Palladio
The Villas of Palladio

Author: Kim Williams

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2003-09

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1568983964

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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.

Palladio, the Villa and the Landscape
Palladio, the Villa and the Landscape

Author: Gerrit Smienk

Publisher: Birkhaüser

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783034607124

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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.

Palladio's Villas
Palladio's Villas

Author: Paul Holberton

Publisher: John Murray Pubs Limited

Published: 1991-03-14

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780719549649

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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.