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Andrea Palladio - highly original and much imitated Italian architect (1508-1580)

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From Mythos to Logos: Andrea Palladio, Freemasonry, and the Triumph of Minerva

Nablus: A terracotta-tiled dome pokes up above an avenue of cypress trees, crowning a creamy classical villa that bears the unmistakable influence of the great Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

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Relevant studies conducted by Kent Larson (2000) on the unbuilt projects of Louis Kahn; by Antonio Foscari (2010) about Andrea Palladio; by Mirko Galli and Claudia Muhlhoff (2000) on Giuseppe Terragni; by Alberto Sdegno (2008) on Palladio and Wright; and by Nicholas Webb and Andre Brown (2011) on James Stirling, state the importance of studying the unbuilt to gain a complete insight as to how an architect's work should be understood.

Rethinking Vilanova Artigas: his unbuilt courtyard-houses/ Repensando Vilanova Artigas. suas casas-patio nao construidas/ Repensando Vilanova Artigas. sus casas patio no construidas

(ALI) chair Fernando Zobel de Ayala was awarded the Andrea Palladio International Prize at this year's Dedalo

Fernando Zobel de Ayala conferred the Andrea Palladio International Prize

PETER EISENMAN'S LATEST BOOK offers a provocative interpretation of Andrea Palladio's reinvention of classical order that has as much to say about the present predicament of architectural practice as it does about the sixteenth century Veneto in which the celebrated Renaissance architect lived and worked.

A formal affair: Daniel Sherer on Peter Eisenman's Palladio Virtue!

No expense was spared in the creation of Palladio, whose design was inspired by Andrea Palladio, the celebrated 16th-century Venetian architect.

Palatial home fit for the gods; WARWICKSHIRE - PS5,250,000

He dismissed Andrea Palladio as unimportant and excoriated his work, especially the church of II Redentore.

Sara Quill, Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited

One can think of the four symmetrical outriggers/porches as a reinterpretation of the geometry and ordering principles of say, Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda, which in turn represented a rediscovery of ancient architectural principles.

On exhibit: architect Joe King on replicating an iconic Rudolph structure

(9) Actualmente el lienzo Las bodas de Caanan se ubica en el Museo del Louvre, despues de que Napoleon ordenara, en 1797, que se sustrajera del refectorio del convento benedictino de la isla veneciana de San Giorgi, que edifico Andrea Palladio. Mide 994 cm de largo x 677 cm de alto.

De colores y de musicas (I)

Our group of inquisitive visitors was given the grand tour of Villa La Rotonda, Andrea Palladio's masterpiece, by owner Nicolo Valmarana, impeccably but casually attired in a pale blue cashmere sweater, who announced enigmatically: "In the Veneto water is nothing and blood is wine."

Sample la dolce vita; It's an Italian job. GILL MARTIN tours the grand old villas of Veneto

Eyewitnesses describe the architectural splendor of the theatre (designed by Andrea Palladio), the magnificent perspective scenery (created by Vincenzo Scamozzi), the elegant costumes (by Giambatista Manganza), the lavishly dressed nobles seated in the audience, and the heartrending effects of the performance, directed by Angelo Ingegneri (1550-1613), well-known throughout late-Renaissance Italy for his expert staging of tragedy.

Staging ritual all'Italiana: Edipo tiranno at Vicenza (1585)

To give thanks for the ending of the Plague, the Doge, Alvise I Mocenigo, promised to build a magnificent church, and commissioned the famous architect, Andrea Palladio, to oversee this.