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- catalog abstract ""Before Andrea Palladio began designing his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, architectural genius was reserved for temples and palaces. Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form, and he not only designed and built, he wrote. His late-sixteenth-century architectural treatises were read and studied by great thinkers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and Inigo Jones, profoundly influencing the design of Monticello, the tidewater plantation houses of Virginia, and the White House. All across America today, Palladio's influence is evident in ample porches and columned porticoes, in grand ceiling heights and front-door pediments." "In The Perfect House, Witold Rybczynski, whose books on domestic and landscape architecture have transformed our understanding of parks and buildings, looks at Palladio's famous villas, not with the eye of an art historian but with the eye of an architect. He wanted to know why a handful of houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12582216.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Before Andrea Palladio began designing his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, architectural genius was reserved for temples and palaces. Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form, and he not only designed and built, he wrote. His late-sixteenth-century architectural treatises were read and studied by great thinkers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and Inigo Jones, profoundly influencing the design of Monticello, the tidewater plantation houses of Virginia, and the White House. All across America today, Palladio's influence is evident in ample porches and columned porticoes, in grand ceiling heights and front-door pediments." "In The Perfect House, Witold Rybczynski, whose books on domestic and landscape architecture have transformed our understanding of parks and buildings, looks at Palladio's famous villas, not with the eye of an art historian but with the eye of an architect. He wanted to know why a handful of houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Godi -- 2. Che Bella casa -- 3. The arched device -- 4. On the Brenta -- 5. Porticoes -- 6. The Brothers Barbaro -- 7. An immensely pleasing sight -- 8. Emo -- 9. The last villa -- 10. Palladio's secret.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 266 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Perfect house.".
- catalog identifier "0743205863".
- catalog isFormatOf "Perfect house.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Scribner,".
- catalog relation "Perfect house.".
- catalog spatial "Italy Veneto".
- catalog spatial "Italy Veneto.".
- catalog spatial "Italy".
- catalog spatial "Italy.".
- catalog subject "720/.92 21".
- catalog subject "Architects Italy Biography.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Domestic Italy Veneto History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Renaissance Italy.".
- catalog subject "Classicism in architecture Italy Veneto.".
- catalog subject "NA1123.P2 R93 2002".
- catalog subject "Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Godi -- 2. Che Bella casa -- 3. The arched device -- 4. On the Brenta -- 5. Porticoes -- 6. The Brothers Barbaro -- 7. An immensely pleasing sight -- 8. Emo -- 9. The last villa -- 10. Palladio's secret.".
- catalog title "The perfect house : a journey with the Renaissance master Andrea Palladio / Witold Rybczynski.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".