Palladio

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn and tries to penetrate to the heart of the Palladian miracle. Palladio's theoretical writings are important and illuminating, he suggests, yet they never do justice to the intense intuitive skills of "a magician of light and colour". Indeed, as the photographs in this book reveal, Palladio was "as sensual, as skilled in visual alchemy as any Venetian painter of his time", and his countless imitators have usually captured the details, but not the essence of his style. There are buildings all the way from Philadelphia to Leningrad which bear witness to Palladio's "permanent place in the making of architecture", yet he also deserves to be seen on his own terms.

ISBN 0140135006   Pages 208 ISBN13 9780140135008 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 252 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Penguin Art & Architecture S. Publication date 25 Jul 1991   Height (mm) 198 Illustrator Phyllis Dearborn Massar   Width (mm) 134 Photographer Massar, Phyllis Dearborn   Spine width (mm) 10 Library of Congress 2009655250   Academic level General DEWEY 720.92   Interest age 17 DEWEY edition DC21

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