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![]() ![]() Incorporating many of his own designs to illustrate the principles of classical Roman architecture, Palladio strongly influenced 18th-century architecture in the British Isles, Italy and America. A very nice example.įirst published in Italian in 1570, Palladio’s treatise popularized classical decorative details, becoming what is probably the most influential architectural book ever printed. In excellent condition with light rubbing and wear, some leaves toned. General and divisional titles within woodcut historiated architectural border profusion of woodcut illustrations, mostly full-page. Folio, bound in full morocco, gilt tooling of Renaissance-style panel design, spine ends. Rare second edition after the first of 1570, “the most studied of the architectural treatises of the Renaissance” (Millard). Finally Lord Burlington tried to bring back the entire collection with the purchase of Talman’s drawings, which later passed to the IV Duke of Devonshire.I Quattro Libri di Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture). One group of drawings came to the hands of George Clarke, who bequeathed them to Worcester College Library and another group was bought by William Talman, who gave them to his son John Talman. The drawings passed to Jones’s pupil John Webb and later to Webb’s son William, who sold them. ![]() The history of how these drawings arrived to London from Vicenza and Venice is a fascinating one, so that I decided to retrace the route these drawings made through architects and collectors during more than five centuries, starting with the author, Andrea Palladio, and the first person who brought most of the drawings to England, Inigo Jones. In fact only in London three-hundred drawings by Palladio are preserved at the RIBA Library and two at Westminster Abbey Library, six can be found at Worcester College Library, Oxford, and ten at Chatsworth house, Derbyshire. ![]() Palladio is well-known in Europe, Russia included, and even in North America but it was in England, especially around London’s area, where he achieved most of his success. ![]() Andrea Palladio remains one of the most influential architects in Italy, especially in Veneto, but also in other parts of the world in which his drawings and the famous treatise I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura came to a wide reading public made of architects, collectors and connoisseurs. ![]()
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