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Proto-industrial architecture of the Veneto in the age of Palladio / edited by Deborah Howard ; translation from Italian Deborah Howard.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA6403.I8 A72813 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Officina libraria
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Industrial--Italy--Veneto--History--16th century.
- Architecture, Industrial.
- Industries--Italy--Veneto--History--16th century.
- Industries.
- Hydraulic engineering--Italy--Veneto--History--16th century.
- Hydraulic engineering.
- Water-power--Italy--Veneto--History--16th century.
- Water-power.
- Veneto (Italy)--Economic conditions--16th century.
- Veneto (Italy).
- Economic history.
- Italy--Veneto.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rome : Officina Libraria ; Vicenza : Palladio Museum, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The remarkable career of the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is largely due to an extraordinary moment of prosperity in the Veneto mainland, both in the city and in the countryside: a boom due in large measure to a little-studied revolution in manufacturing.0This book brings to light for the first time the architecture of these early industries, especially the production of textiles (wool, silk), mining and metalworking, paper manufacture, ceramics, sawmilling and leather-tanning. The huge surge in patent applications to the Venetian Senate in the period highlights the parallel technological improvements in both efficiency and quality. Former proto-industrial buildings across the Veneto, studied at first-hand, reveal the efficiency of hydraulic power and smooth-running mechanical processes.0Water-power, a clean, renewable energy source, and structures made of natural, traditional materials, have much to teach today's civilisation.
- Notes:
- Translation of "L'architettura protoindustriale del Veneto nell'età di Palladio".
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-277) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788833671819
- 883367181X
- OCLC:
- 1303062959
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