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Palladian architecture

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Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580).

 


6 Great Books About Palladian Architecture
Discover the Legacy of Renaissance Architect Andrea Pallado
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Its chief proponent was Lord Burlington, whose Chiswick House copied Palladio’s mid sixteenth-century Villa Rotonda. Palladian architecture rejected the imaginative heights of the Baroque: architecture was centred on proportion, ...

See also: Palladian, Architecture, Renaissance, Classical, Neoclassical

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