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Title: Andrea Palladio, his life and works
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866-1953
Subjects: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Publisher: London, G. Bell and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ting of town houses;it is not, however, one of his best examples, and was in allprobability an early work. Another design, which shows a very original treatmentof plan for a narrow site, is that for the Conte GiovanniBattista della Torre, at Verona. No elevation of the exterioris given in Palladios book, but merely a plan and longi-tudinal section. The entrances are 11 feet 6 inches wide on the narrowsides facing streets, and lead to two courts, each 57 feet longby 34 feet wide. Wedged in between these two courts aretwelve Ionic columns grouped to support the upper hall.The lower hall leads to an elliptical main staircase andsecondary stairs. The facades of these courts are orna-mented with Ionic and Corinthian pilasters and entablatures,the upper order being placed on pedestals. A galleryis carried round on the top of the Ionic entablature at thefirst floor level, for the purpose of intercommunication.There is a spacious breadth about this plan which is verypleasing and satisfactory.
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2$. THE VILLA CAPRA (THE ROTONDAj, NEAR VICENZA.PLAN. CHAPTER VI COUNTRY HOUSES PALLADIO introduces the subject of country houses inhis second book, Chapter XII., with a few preliminaryremarks on situation and the various compartments, etc.,in these words: As certainly tis highly creditable andconvenient for a gentleman to have a house in the city,where he is obliged sometimes to reside, either as occupyingsome public post in the government, or for the managementof his own private affairs ; so perhaps he may receive no lesspleasure and advantage from a house in the country, wherehe passes the rest of his time in seeing and improving hisown possessions, in augmenting his substance by industryand agriculture, where, by exercising himself either in walk-ing or on horseback (which are only proper for the country),he preserves his body strong and healthy; and where, in aword, the mind being over-laboured by the fatigue of thecity, will be singularly recruited and re-created : so that hemay

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