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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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e position of the stairs, asbeing dark, because they would only be used in going to thekitchens or the attics. In two-storeyed houses, he says hehas taken care to make the staircases lightsome and inconvenient places. Bertotti mentions that the wings were scarcely com-menced, and that the plan itself has been varied consider-ably in execution ; only one of the porticoes being completed,viz., that formed in a line with the building. This is oneof the few country house designs to which Palladio intendedgiving a complete quadrangle and is of type 2 (page 61). House at La Frata for the Nobile FranciscoBadoero.—Situated upon a tributary of the Adige, upona slight ascent, this building is of type 4, which in thefollowing centuries was much used in England. In all ofPalladios country houses symmetry is the ruling idea. Heevidently had no sympathy with that unbalanced planningwhich the architect of the middle of the last century en-deavoured to associate with country buildings. In this case
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COUNTRY HOUSES 65 the corps de logis is a square one-storeyed structure withfront and rear Ionic portico (this last omitted in execution)supporting entablature and pediment; the whole crownedwith a hipped roof. The principal floor is raised five feet.The kitchens are in the basement and the granaries in theroof. The wings are formed as a quadrant on each side ofthe main block and have a colonnade, behind which arearranged the stables and the stewards apartments. Inexecution it differs considerably from Palladios originaldesign, in which a second portico is planned, and the ex-terior staircase towards the court is differently arranged,while the interior decoration in grotesques, which ismentioned, was not carried out or has been destroyed. House at Casalto for the Nobile Marco Zeno.—This consists of a principal square block, about 70 feetby 60 feet, containing the living-rooms, on either side ofwhich are returned colonnades, and is of the type 5. Asin all Palladios designs, the groun

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