Palladio

NOUN
  1. highly original and much imitated Italian architect (1508-1580)
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  • In 1791 James Hoban (1762-1831) won the commission to build the presidential residence with his plan for a Georgian mansion in the style of Andrea Palladio.
  • The majority are soluble in water, the chief exceptions being silver bromide, mercurous bromide, palladious bromide and lead bromide; the last is, however, soluble in hot water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • London: The Royal Academy's best rooms look even more handsome than usual with the installation of "Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy," an exhibition celebrating the quincentenary of the influential architect's birth. Palladio's Oeuvre: Majestic, Beautiful, But Also Functional
  • The umpteen how to write a business plan divinity to bombie chimneysweep or albedo palladio, hits up rigout, presbyter costanoan or sureness a heartbreaker rearward of the jaggedness. Rational Review
  • Note 297: In the following century, through the writings of Sebastiano Serlio and fabrications of Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi, the ideal city would be literalized as a civic setting for theatrical performance. back Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • The decoration is all piled on the front, as elaborate a design, often, as Palladio ever dreamt of, but at the side, every cornice and stringpiece stops as short as if it had been sawn off, and the whole side is a flat blank piece of brickwork. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
  • Bad Palladio would always be more palatable than bad Bernini or Mansart. Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum
  • Rather like the Venetians - the difference being that Venice went on evolving: its Byzantine ogees and trefoils made room for Palladio and all that.
  • One exception to Palladio's minimalist approach is the Villa Barbaro, with a nymphaeum set against the hillside behind the villa and so close to the building that it seems an open-air extension of it.
  • In his practical inventory of farm assets, Palladio simply lists gardens together with granaries, storerooms, fishponds and dovecotes.
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