How To Use Palladian In A Sentence
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No hint of eighteenth-century neo-Palladian swagger or its kitsch modern imitations.
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Not only did he decide to hire 500 local workers to build a jaw-droppingly ostentatious home on the edge of his beloved Nablus to return to after decades as a much-travelled top international businessman; he made the domed mansion a floor higher than the Palladian original in Vicenza "because I have a large family"." thanks W.
Monday, June 30, 2008
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On the south side, a first floor loggia with Ionic columns overlooked the garden; on the north, a horseshoe staircase leads in Palladian manner to a terrace and a two-storey cubic hall.
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The Carstairs house: large, imposing, the lamps outside showing up the white of the Palladian columns.
THE GOLDEN LION
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His opinion is that Palladian is Titus, and comments like this ...the "real Titus" inasmuch as a fictional character can be real has always been stupid are indicative of autophobia.
Hey, James Wolcott called me a peeing intellectual nobility.
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It has led a chequered life, but is now restored to its full Palladian glory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The grandeur of the Palladian villas, that adorn these shores, was considerably heightened by the setting rays, which threw strong contrasts of light and shade upon the porticos and long arcades, and beamed a mellow lustre upon the orangeries and the tall groves of pine and cypress, that overhung the buildings.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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ADDED: In the comments Palladian reminds us of the joyous expression leggings unleash:
Archive 2007-01-01
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They were walking up a hill path past a row of mausoleums, like miniature Palladian villas.
MURDER SONG
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There Wright filled the grounds with follies, grottoes, and garden buildings in the rustic, Gothic, and Palladian styles.
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She then describes the battle of the styles between Baroque, Palladian, and astylar designs for the great voluntary hospitals in Britain.
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A splendid twelve-foot tree, heavily adorned with electric lights, filled the solarium and radiated through the Palladian window at the top of the foyer stairs.
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No hint of eighteenth-century neo-Palladian swagger or its kitsch modern imitations.
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His Palladian residential aesthetic, his Greco-Roman temple to government in Richmond, and the meaning of his Declaration of Independence still inspire and resonate across the republic.
J. Michael Welton: A Tale of Two Architects
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Althouse: You know your favourite comment--It was Palladian riffing on Verso saying something about his 'recto' being covered.
A vlog for the day after New Year's, the day before the Iowa caucuses.
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The old British Residency (effectively the British Embassy) was a vast Palladian villa, in plan not unlike its contemporary, the White House in Washington, and it lay in a garden just over the River Musi from the old city.
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Mr Pearce makes only passing reference to what is, for many, Walpole's outstanding monument: the magnificent Palladian house he built at Houghton in Norfolk.
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Journey's end was a Palladian mansion, a gigantic first cousin once removed to the Feldbausch dolls ' house.
TOY SHOP
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Its facade mixes Georgian colonnades with the loopholes and turrets of a mediaeval castle; above, Palladian arcades rise to Mughal copulas.
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Even people who run libraries and museums undermine Palladian grandeur by doing everything they can to ensure that we enter the premises like charwomen and delivery boys, unencumbered by any ideas about the heroic dignity of knowledge or learning.
Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum
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On the south side, a first floor loggia with Ionic columns overlooked the garden; on the north, a horseshoe staircase leads in Palladian manner to a terrace and a two-storey cubic hall.
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Roman classicism had inspired Palladian architecture which was favoured by the Whig ascendancy in Britain.
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Its facade mixes Georgian colonnades with the loopholes and turrets of a mediaeval castle; above, Palladian arcades rise to Mughal copulas.
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In its glory days, Land's End was said to feature marble, parquet and wide wood-planked floors, Palladian windows and hand-painted wallpaper.
N.Y. mansion linked to 'Great Gatsby' being razed
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Palladian architecture adheres to the Roman principles of symmetry and proportion.
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Sunlight poured in through Palladian windows, illuminating the room obscenely.
RUNNING FROM THE LAW
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the much imitated arch and column compositions known as the Palladian motif
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It has led a chequered life, but is now restored to its full Palladian glory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The front of the house is true Baker - stone walls, palladian windows, a tall oriel window, an Italian staircase leading onto a three-arched verandah with the balcony above.
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An unsuitable Palladian mansion in an unexciting East Anglian village on the edge of the black fens.
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On a drive around the county's back roads, the sheriff pointed to new house after new house, some with mansard roofs, some with Palladian windows, that he said were built with drug profits.
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The following year, after Waterloo, work began on the improvements planned by Samuel Ware, who renovated and amended the great enfilade of Palladian reception rooms.