The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at ChiswickJohn Harris, Professor of Bioethics and Applied Philosophy Director of the Center for Social Ethics and Policy John Harris Yale University Press, 1994 M01 1 - 280 pages In 1726 Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, built an addition to his modest country house on the river Thames at Chiswick. Influenced by the architecture of the sixteenth-century Italian Andrea Palladio and by the British architects from Inigo Jones to James Gibbs and Colen Campbell who followed in Palladio's footsteps, Lord Burlington raised a freestanding 'villa,' an English response to Palladio's famous Villa Rotonda. The villa, with sumptuous interiors designed by William Kent, was as distinguished as any designed by Palladio or Jones. The building became the touchstone of Neo-Palladian architecture; its architect became known as the 'Modern Vitruvius,' the 'Apollo of the Arts.' This illustrated book focuses on the creation of this famous 'Villa by the Thames.' |
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ANDREA PALLADIO Andrew Fountaine architecture astylar Bagnio Boyle British Architects built Burlington House Campbell's cascade ceiling Chatsworth Settlement 26A Chatsworth Settlement Boy Chatsworth Settlement Lit chimney piece Colen Campbell Colvin Deer House Designs of Inigo detail of cat Diocletian window Donowell Duke Earl of Burlington entrance Exedra façade FLITCROFT draughtsman Chiswick front Gallery Georgian Group Gibbs hall Hawksmoor HENRY FLITCROFT HENRY FLITCROFT draughtsman Hewlings Inigo Jones Insc Institute of British Jones's Kent's Lady Burlington's London Lord Burlington neo-Palladian obelisk old house Orange Tree Garden Orangery ornament painting Palladio's drawings pediment Pen and wash portico Quattro Libri Queen's House Rigaud Rocque Rocque's engraved survey Roman Baths Rome Rotonda Royal Institute rprd Rustic Arch Rysbrack scale Pen Scamozzi Sicca side Summer Parlour terrace Tottenham Park Trustees Velvet Room Venetian window Venice Vicenza Villa Vitruvius Britannicus William Kent WILLIAM KENT Chiswick William Talman York Assembly Rooms