| Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), a closer look at some of his works - Basilica Vicenza (Serlio motif), Villa Barbaro (painter Veronese), Villa Rotonda and the Tempietto at Maser (Pantheon), Loggia del Capitanio and Palazzo Porto Breganze (both not finished), Teatro Olimpico (Scamozzi). Also shown the San Marco Library (Venice) of Sansovino and the San Benedetto (Polirone) of Guilio Romano. The influence of Palladio can eg be seen in the following buildings (shown in this vid): Inigo Jones (1573 - 1652) Queen's House, Greenwich, the first English Palladian house. Colen Campbell (1676 - 1729) Stourhead House, Wiltshire, England. Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694 - 1753) Chiswick House. Chiswick, London. William Buckland (1734 - 1774) Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland, US Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736 - 1806) Rotonde de la Villette, Paris. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the US (1743 - 1826) Monticello, his mountaintop home, Charlottesville, Virginia, US. Giacomo Quarenghi (1744 - 1817) 'Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens', Saint Petersburg, Russia. James Hoban (1762 - 1831) White House, Washington, DC Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005) Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, US. |