Palladio. The Villas

This volume was originally published on the occasion of the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great architect Andrea Palladio in 2008. With the help of a set of iconic photographs with great visual impact that were tailored specifically to the text, author Luca Trevisan traces the evolution of the theory and practice of this Vicentine architect, the most influential in the history of Western architecture. Through a close reading of the drawings in Palladio’s Quattro Libri dell’Architettura (Venice, 1570), Trevisan makes connections between the buildings as they were built and the concepts and designs behind them, which employed classical architecture and Vitruvian teachings in a then-contemporary and Renaissance setting.