Andrea Palladio

Four Books of Architecture, Villa Rotonda

The most influential architect in Western history after Vitruvius himself. His villas in the Veneto — above all the Villa Rotonda, a perfect cube crowned by a dome — translated Vitruvian principles into a rational, harmonious, and endlessly imitable style. The Four Books of Architecture spread Palladianism across Europe and America: Monticello, the White House, and half of Georgian England descend from his drawings.

Key works

• Villa Rotonda1567-1571— The perfect villa — symmetry, proportion, landscape
  Vicenza
• I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura1570— The most influential architecture book ever published
  Text — treatise
• San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice1566— Classical temple front on a Venetian lagoon
  Venice

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