Palladio's Villas: Life in the Renaissance Countryside

by Paul Holberton

Book Overview

Palladio became one of the most influential architects in history and his villas designed in the countryside around Venice are amongst the most beautiful houses ever built. They aimed to express the ideals of reason, humanity and civilization in Renaissance life and to provide practical settings from which the sophisticated merchants or gentry from Vicenzia and Venice could exercise their privileges as landowners and their responsibilities as farmers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719549647
• ISBN13: 9780719549649
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.