- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (14 Mar 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719549647
- ISBN-13: 978-0719549649
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 915,816 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. In this illustrated book the author explores special qualities of the architecture, provides a guide for visitors, and also sets them among the people, practicalities and beliefs which gave them life.
About the Author
Paul Holberton is an art historian specilising in Venice nd the Veneto during the Renaissance.
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Mr. Holberton is an excellent Venetian / Veneto art historian. His book is full of interesting information, as well as short biographies of the better known villa owners. The book has nice photographs and drawings, and a map showing the location of villas. Unfortunately, the actual writing could have benefited from a stronger editing hand; I found it a difficult read.
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