The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick

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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.'
 

Contents

FOREWORD vii
9
PREFACE xi
11
Ancestry Education and Patronage 355
35
The Architect Earl
61
The New Villa
105
The Villa and Old House linked
169
APPENDIX
267
INDEX 275
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John Harris is Curator Emeritus of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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