Palladio

Name: Palladio
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ISBN: 9780140135008

ISBN-10: 0140135006

ISBN-13: 9780140135008

Edition: 1991

Authors: James S. Ackerman, Phyllis D. Massar, James Ackerman

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Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn and tries to penetrate to the heart of the Palladian miracle. Palladio's theoretical writings are important and illuminating, he suggests, yet they never do justice to the intense intuitive skills of "a magician of light and colour". Indeed, as the photographs in this book reveal, Palladio was "as sensual, as skilled in visual alchemy as any Venetian painter of his time", and his countless imitators have usually…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/30/1974
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

James S. Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University, is the author of books on Michelangelo's architecture, Palladio, and the villa. He is the winner of the Balzan Prize 2001 in the category of history of architecture, which includes town planning and landscape design presented by the International Balzan Foundation.