The Palladian Ideal (English)

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 Colen Campbell's Mereworth Castle and Lord Burlington's Chiswick House in England, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux'' Royal Salt Works in France, Karl von Fischer's Prinz-Karl-Palais in Germany, and Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda at the University of Virginia. minimize