Palladian Ideal by Joseph Rykwert

One of the most influential architects of all time

The sixteenth-century builder Andrea Palladio of Vicenza was to become one of the most influential architects of all time. His famous and beautiful villas, built in the mainland territories of the Venetian Republic, provided his contemporaries and successors with a model for interpreting antique architecture through complex yet graceful proportion and simple, sometimes even stark, ornament.

Palladio's most important country villas

In this extraordinarily beautiful volume, Joseph Rykwert and Roberto Schezen present several of Palladio's most important country villas, as well as well-known later works by others that continue the Palladian tradition, including Colen Campbell's Mereworth Castle and Lord Burlingtron's Chiswick House in England.

Joseph Rykwert and Roberto Schezen

Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Rykwert is the author of thirteen books.
Roberto Schezen is the author of Rizzoli's Places and Memories: Visions of Ancient America.

The Palladian Ideal

Publisher: Rizzoli, 2000
ISBN: 0847821587

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