Palladio, the villa and the landscape [Book] / Gerrit Smienk and Johannes Niemeijer ; with contributions by Hans Venema ; and drawings by Frits van Dongen ... [et al.] and their assistants ; [editing, Hans Venema].

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Smienk, Gerrit

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Basel : Birkhuser, c2011.Description: 159 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.), plans (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN:

3034607121
9783034607124

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728.8209453 22

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728.8209453

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Ten selected villas. Villa Godi -- Villa Saraceno -- Villa Pisani -- Villa Poiana -- Villa Badoer -- Villa Foscari -- Villa Cornaro -- Villa Barbaro -- Villa Emo -- Villa Rotonda.

Summary: Andrea Palladio is universally regarded as one of the most important architects of the Re-naissance. He was the first ""professional architect"" and was strongly influenced by Greek and Roman architecture, particularly by Vitruvius. His treatise ""Quattro libri dellarchitettura"" also earned him worldwide recognition. Palladios villas meanwhile are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This book documents and analyzes ten of Palladios eighteen surviving villas specifically in terms of their relationship with their natural surroundings; their influence on those surroundings is investigated as well. The selected villas constitute a representative cross section of Palladios wide-ranging output. The landscape formations of Veneto, where these villas are located, may be divided into three types: plains surrounded by mountains, arid plains, and marshland. Gerrit Smienk is a landscape architect with many years teaching experience at the TU Delft and the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, and is a recognized expert on the Italian Renaissance. .

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 158) and index.

Ten selected villas. Villa Godi -- Villa Saraceno -- Villa Pisani -- Villa Poiana -- Villa Badoer -- Villa Foscari -- Villa Cornaro -- Villa Barbaro -- Villa Emo -- Villa Rotonda.

Andrea Palladio is universally regarded as one of the most important architects of the Re-naissance. He was the first ""professional architect"" and was strongly influenced by Greek and Roman architecture, particularly by Vitruvius. His treatise ""Quattro libri dellarchitettura"" also earned him worldwide recognition. Palladios villas meanwhile are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This book documents and analyzes ten of Palladios eighteen surviving villas specifically in terms of their relationship with their natural surroundings; their influence on those surroundings is investigated as well. The selected villas constitute a representative cross section of Palladios wide-ranging output. The landscape formations of Veneto, where these villas are located, may be divided into three types: plains surrounded by mountains, arid plains, and marshland. Gerrit Smienk is a landscape architect with many years teaching experience at the TU Delft and the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, and is a recognized expert on the Italian Renaissance. .

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