Palladio four books of architecture video

Modern photos of the buildings, photographed in the spring of 2014 by Filippo Romano, provide a contemporary vision of the works. In the show, miniature models and drawings of JeffersonвЂ™s Palladio-inspired buildings are accompanied by the statesmanвЂ™s meticulously scrawled notes and letters. And there is no better place than the Palladio Museum, housed in Palazzo Barbarano, which was designed by Palladio and built from 1570 to 1575, to compare the architectural output of the Veneto architect and the American statesman. ThereвЂ™s no better city to immerse oneself in Palladian architecture than Vicenza, now recognized as a Unesco World Heritage Site. вЂњThough many exhibits have been done on Jefferson, this is the first time that the theme of affinity and parallelism with Palladio has been addressed,вЂќ Mr. Somewhat surprisingly, the Vicenza exhibition is the first show dedicated to the influence that Palladio had on Jefferson, a subject that has long been the topic of scholarly research. It is likely that Jefferson named his plantation Monticello, which means вЂњsmall hillвЂќ in Italian, because Palladio wrote in his treatise that Villa La Rotonda rose on a small вЂњmonticello.вЂќ The extent of that influence need not be sought any further than an AmericanвЂ™s pocket or change purse: One side of the nickel depicts Monticello, JeffersonвЂ™s plantation outside of Charlottesville, Va., which was inspired by PalladioвЂ™s Villa La Rotonda, just outside of Vicenza. So many buildings in the United States, including iconic constructions like the White House and the Capitol Building, reflect the influence of Palladio (and the later 18th-century Anglo-Palladian movement) that in 2010 the United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution honoring the 500th anniversary of PalladioвЂ™s birth, recognizing вЂњhis tremendous influenceвЂќ on American architecture and cultural heritage. Through Jefferson, that idea was to have a profound influence on American public architecture.

But above all, Jefferson was both a visionary and a pragmatist: Once he had understood that language, once he had the syntax encoded in an architectural treatise, вЂњhe had no need to see the originals,вЂќ Mr. Jefferson вЂњwas interested in the Palladian language, in the mathematics,вЂќ he said. Elevation of the Vitruvian peripteral temple, Book Four, I Quattro Libri, courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library.вЂњFor Jefferson, Palladio took the great tradition of ancient Roman architecture and translated it for the purposes of the modern world, so that it could be accessible,вЂќ Mr. Ionic order, Book One, I Quattro Libri, courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library.

Villa Rotonda, Book Two, I Quattro Libri, courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library. Villa Cornaro, Book Two, I Quattro Libri, courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library. Studies for the plates of the Pantheon, Book Four, I Quattro Libri, 1560s courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library. Courtyard elevation of the Palazzo da Porto, Book Two, I Quattro Libri, courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library. Elevation of the Palazzo da Porto, Book Two, I Quattro Libri courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library. Photo credits: Titlepage to Book I of Andrea Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books on Architecture), 1570 courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library.

Charles Hind shares how Palladio's treatise redefined the nature of publishing architecture and how it positioned his work within the continuum of ancient Roman architecture.

Palladio four books of architecture video