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2. Palladian villas of the Veneto - Wikipedia

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   Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza.One of Palladio's most influential designs. Villa Godi in Lugo Vicentino.An early work notable for lack of external decoration. The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in the Veneto, the mainland region of north-eastern Italy then under the political control of the ...

3. Italian Renaissance interior design - Wikipedia

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   Also, in such cases, porticos were built on all sides so that occupants could fully appreciate the countryside while being protected from the sun, similar to many American-style porches of today. Palladio sometimes used a loggia as an alternative to the portico. This can most simply be described as a recessed portico, or an internal single ...

4. Palladian architecture - Wikipedia

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   A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura, in an English translation published in London, 1736 Plan for Palladio's Villa La Rotonda (c. 1565) – features of the house were incorporated in numerous Palladian-style houses throughout Europe over the following centuries.

5. City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto

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   City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto is a World Heritage Site in Italy, which protects buildings by the architect Andrea Palladio. UNESCO inscribed the site on the World Heritage List in 1994. [1] At first the site was called "Vicenza, City of Palladio" and only buildings in the immediate area of Vicenza were included.

6. Villa Cornaro - Wikipedia

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   Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km northwest of Venice, Italy.It was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1552 and is illustrated and described by him in Book Two of his 1570 masterwork, I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books on Architecture). [1]

7. Andrea Palladio - Wikipedia

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   His first major work in the style was the Queen's House at Greenwich (1616–1635), modelled after Palladio's villas. [30] Wilton House is another adaptation of Palladio's villa plans. It had a particularly famous feature, the Palladio Bridge, designed around 1736.