The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
by Witold Rybczynski
from Scribner
"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today.
In The Perfect House, bestselling author Witold Rybczynski, whose previous books have transformed our understanding of domestic architecture, reveals how a handful of Palladio's houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe. More than just a study of one of history's seminal architectural figures, The Perfect House reflects Rybczynski's enormous admiration for his subject and provides a new way of looking at the special landscapes we call "home" in the modern world.
Palladio (Architect and Society)
by James S. Ackerman
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic
by Tracy E. Cooper
from Yale University Press
In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Tracy E. Cooper organizes Palladio’s work in Venice according to different types of patrons. She discusses his major monuments as well as less well-known work for charitable foundations, convents, triumphal processions, and the rebuilding of the Ducal Palace. She tells the compelling story of an established architect breaking into a new market and of a Renaissance city in the midst of sweeping change.
The Villas of Palladio
by Giovanni Giaconi
from Princeton Architectural Press
His sixteenth-century villas in the Italian Veneto revolutionized the course of architecture, and the principles on which he based his work are still used today. For the past several years, Italian water colorist Giovanni Giaconi has devoted his talents to creating exquisite large-format pen-and-ink watercolor renderings of all thirty-two of Palladio's villas. Each drawing captures the timeless beauty of Palladian architecture and provides a detailed record of these masterpieces. Together with brief descriptions of each villa, samples of Giaconi's preparatory sketches, and Palladio's own woodcuts, these works of art leave a deep impression of Palladio's oeuvre and give the reader an opportunity to compare the original designs with the actual buildings and their present state of conservation. Giovanni Giaconi is an artist and designer Living in Vicenza.
Palladio and Palladianism (World of Art)
by Robert Tavernor
from Thames & Hudson
Palladio's Rome
by Andrea Palladio
from Yale University Press
Like the originals, this new edition is pocket-sized and therefore easily read on site. Enhanced with illustrations and commentary, the book also includes the first full English translation of Raphael’s famous letter to Pope Leo X on the monuments of ancient Rome. For architectural historians, tourists, and armchair travelers, this book offers fresh and surprising insights into the antiquarian and ecclesiastical preoccupations of one of the greatest of the Renaissance architectural masters.
Palladio's Architecture and Its Influence: A Photographic Guide
by Joseph C. Farber
from Dover Publications
Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time
by Bruce Boucher
from Abbeville Press
A comprehensive handbook exploring the career of the architect who transformed the building design and construction of the Western world.
Palladio and Palladianism
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