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The perfect house : a journey with the Renaissance master Andrea Palladio / Witold Rybczynski.
LIBRA NA1123.P2 R93 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rybczynski, Witold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Renaissance--Italy.
- Architecture, Renaissance.
- Italy.
- Architects--Italy--Biography.
- Architects.
- Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.
- Palladio, Andrea.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 294 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2003.
- Summary:
- "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." --Book Jacket.
- Contents:
- Godi
- Che Bella Casa
- The arched device
- On the Brenta
- Porticoes
- The brothers Barbaro
- An immensely pleasing sight
- Emo
- The Last villa
- Palladio's secret.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gemmill Family Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0743205871
- 9780743205870
- 0743205863
- 9780743205863
- OCLC:
- 52983486
- Publisher Number:
- 99987223442
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