The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

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by Rybczynski, Witold


  commission granted on, 75, 77, 84

  construction process of, 116, 176

  decorative embellishments on, 80, 83, 264

  original building reinforced as, 74–75, 77, 79, 80–81

  in Quattro libri, 76, 220

  rhythmic repetition in design of, 81–83

  serlianas built in, 79–80, 83, 85, 266

  statue of Palladio erected beside, 223, 251

  Vicentine officials and, 84, 96, 229

  Baths of Agrippa, 41

  battuto, 6, 235

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 196

  Bèrici hills, 201, 205, 211

  Berkeley, George, 139

  Berlin Theater, 99

  Bertotti-Scamozzi, Ottavio, 175, 192

  Blenheim Palace, 136

  Blodgett, Samuel, 99

  Borgia, Lucrezia, 16

  Bramante, Donato, 59

  architects trained by, 20, 43

  classical Roman influence on, 40

  Cortile del Belvedere of, 42, 47, 77, 79

  death of, 42, 115

  harmony in designs of, 21

  inventiveness of, 247

  oculi used by, 70

  as painter, 10

  serliana revived by, 5n, 266

  Tempietto of, 205

  villa façade modeled after, 54

  Brenta River, 100–101, 103, 179

  Brunelleschi, Filippo, 10, 40, 92, 247

  bucrania, 80, 153, 157, 261

  buon fresco, 24

  see also frescoes

  Burlington, Richard Boyle, Lord, 136–37, 141, 214–15, 216, 223

  Caldogno, Euriemma Saraceno, 229, 236, 238n

  Caldogno, Lucietta, 229–30, 231

  Campbell, Colen, 136–37, 139, 140, 175, 214

  capitals, 55, 260, 261

  Capitoline Hill, 84

  Carnera, Anselmo, 88

  castello, 16, 35

  Castle, Richard, 173, 174

  Castle Howard (Yorkshire), 136

  Cavazza, Bartolomeo, 11–12

  ceilings:

  coffered, 186, 192, 206

  construction of, 89

  frescoes painted on, 63, 207

  height of, xviii, 233, 237–38

  vaulted, xviii, 63, 266

  Charles I, King of England, 134, 135

  Charles II, King of England, 136

  Chiericati, Giovanni, 98, 99, 107

  Chiericati, Girolamo, 96, 98

  Chiswick House, 214–15, 217, 223, 243

  Civena family, 38

  Clement VII, Pope, 43

  columns:

  of brick, 114

  defined, 262

  engaged, 199

  entasis (tapering) of, 177–78, 241, 263

  fluted, 263

  freestanding, 97–98

  interior, 127–28

  intervals between, 104, 241, 264

  orders of, 55, 80, 262

  parts of, 55, 260, 262

  pediments without, 57

  sizes of, 246, 263

  commedia dell’arte, 19

  Composite order, 55, 80, 261, 262, 265

  Constant, Caroline, 259

  Contarini, Jacopo, 117

  Contarini family, 121, 122n

  Corinthian order, 55, 80, 246, 260, 261, 262, 265

  Cornaro, Alvise, 21, 59, 121, 147, 221

  background of, 18

  both comfort and beauty advocated by, 18–19, 23

  frescoes used by, 19, 28

  garden loggia built for, 19, 161

  Cornaro, Andrea, 122

  Cornaro, Caterina, 121–22, 127, 145

  Cornaro, Giorgio, 19, 121–22, 127, 128, 130, 142, 143, 147, 157

  Cornaro, Girolamo, 122, 127

  corn cultivation, 191

  cornices, 55, 260, 263

  Corrigan, Brian, 251, 252

  cortile, 32

  Cortile del Belvedere, 42, 47, 77, 79

  curved loggias, 179, 181–82

  cyma recta (ogee molding), 208

  dados, 262

  Da Monte family, 39

  da Porto, Iseppo, 73, 75, 96

  da Sangallo, Antonio, 20, 42, 57, 115

  da Sangallo, Giuliano, 57

  Designs of Inigo Jones (Kent), 137, 139, 140, 214

  Diocletian (thermal) windows, 27, 32, 266

  Doge’s Palace, 74, 79, 114, 117, 151, 164

  domed buildings, 203–7, 211, 220, 223, 264

  in Britain and U.S., 213–19

  Doric order, 55, 56, 80, 83, 253, 262, 265, 266

  drawing techniques, 41, 45–49

  Drayton, John, 140, 142–43

  Drayton Hall (South Carolina), 132, 140, 142–43, 218

  Emo, Andrianna Badoer, 191

  Emo, Cornalia Grimani, 191, 192, 196, 198

  Emo, Leonardo (the Elder), 187, 189, 191

  Emo, Leonardo (the Younger), 187, 189, 191–92

  entablature, 55, 260, 262–63

  entasis, 177–78, 263

  Erith, Raymond, 244

  Este, Ippolito d’, 148

  Este, Isabella d’, 16

  eustyle, 104, 264

  Falconetto, Giovanni Maria, 19, 59

  family rooms, 217

  fascia, 114, 172, 263

  Ferri de Lazara, Cornelia, 59

  Fiorentino, Giallo, 169

  fireplaces, 61, 130, 171

  First Bank of the United States (Philadelphia), 99

  Fletcher, Banister, 9, 27

  floor surfaces, 6, 235–36

  Florence, Brunelleschi cathedral in, 10

  fluting, 263

  Foots Cray Place (Kent), 215–16, 217

  Foscari, Alvise, 104, 108

  Foscari brothers, 104, 107, 108, 118, 157

  Four Books of Architecture, The (Palladio), see Quattro libri dell’architettura, I (Palladio)

  Franco, Battista, 106, 107

  frescoes:

  architectural elements in, 19, 25, 28, 106, 169–70, 187

  on ceilings, 63, 207

  classical references vs. contemporary subjects of, 24–26, 87, 163–64

  clients’ heritage and interests reflected in, 163–64, 179, 191–92

  exterior simplicity vs., 27, 192

  of grotesques, 87

  Palladio’s endorsement of, 28–29, 88

  perceived room proportions affected by, 236, 238

  trompe l’oeil effects of, 25, 28, 106, 169–70

  friezes, 55, 260, 263

  furniture, 129–30

  Gazoto, Tadeo, 39, 56

  Gehry, Frank, 118

  Georgian designs, 139, 142

  giant columns, 103, 263

  Gibbs, James, 139, 140, 141, 181–82, 247

  Giudecca, island of, 103, 222

  Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi), 42, 43, 63, 81

  death of, 73, 75

  expressive style of, 21, 247

  financial success of, 115

  name of, 22

  Titian’s portrait of, 224

  Vicenza palazzo renovation design of, 75, 77

  glassmaking, 61, 103

  Godi, Enrico Antonio, 4

  Godi, Girolamo, 4, 5, 7, 36

  Godi, Pietro, 19, 23, 27–28, 29

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 81, 97, 243

  on Carità cloister, 197

  on Palladio villas, xv, xvi, 207, 209, 226–27

  Gothic style, scale in, 246

  Greenberg, Allan, 182

  Grimani, Cornalia, 191, 192, 196, 198

  Grimani, Giovanni, 198

  groin, 263

  Gualdo, Paolo, 17, 22, 84, 178

  Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 43

  hemicycles, 47, 52–54, 263–64

  Henry III (Henri de Valois), King of France, 106, 223

  Hoban, James, 173

  Holm, Alvin, 216–17, 218

  Howard, Deborah, 111

  Il Redentore, church of, 222–23, 246, 266

  impost, 264

  India, Bernardino, 63, 84

  intercolumniation
, 104, 264

  International Style, 168

  intonaco, 4

  Ionic order, 55, 80, 83, 210, 262, 264, 265

  James I, King of England, 133, 175

  Jeanneret, Charles-Edouard (Le Cor-busier), 9, 69, 92, 118, 130

  Jefferson, Thomas, xvii, xviii, 141, 217–18, 247

  Johnson, Samuel, 209

  Jones, Inigo, xviii, 132–36, 247

  background of, 133, 134

  British and U.S. architecture influenced by, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 175, 215, 218

  buildings designed by, xvii, 134–35, 175, 181

  as court architect, 134, 135–36, 175

  domed residences designed by, 213, 214, 218

  first portico design of, 175

  Palladio villas visited by, 133–34, 137, 181, 206, 213

  on Scamozzi’s resentment toward Palladio, 213

  Jones, Philly Joe, 81

  Jonson, Ben, 133

  Julius III, Pope, 148

  Kahn, Louis I., 92, 172

  Kent, William, 137, 139, 214

  Kildare House (Dublin), 173, 174

  La Malcontenta, see Villa Foscari

  Lanci, Francesco Maria, 253

  Landmark Trust, 226, 230

  La Rocca, 211, 215, 216

  La Rotonda, see Villa Almerico

  League of Cambrai, 11, 21

  Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), 9, 69, 92, 118, 130

  Leoni, Giacomo, 136, 137, 218

  Lewis, Douglas, 28

  Ligorio, Pirro, 148

  Loggia del Capitaniato, 221–22

  loggias, curved, 179, 181–82

  Longair, Malcolm, 111

  Loredan, Lucietta, 176, 179, 191

  Loredan, Zorzi, 176, 179

  Louvre, 99

  Lusławice, 253

  McCarthy, Mary, 163

  Maganza, Giambattista, iv, 83, 116, 224, 251

  Mann, Thomas, 230

  marmorino, 104–5, 114

  Marta dalla Gondola, 10

  mascheroni, 83, 153, 157, 264

  masques, 133

  measurement, Vicentine standards of, 110n, 233–34, 244

  Medici, Lorenzo de’, 57

  Mereworth Castle (Kent), 214, 215, 217, 243

  metopes, 262

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, 10, 21, 43, 84, 105, 117, 187, 247

  Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 9, 71, 92

  Mocenigo, Leonardo, 179, 181, 200

  modillions, 3, 172, 264

  moldings, 41–42, 114, 172, 208, 208, 263, 265, 266

  Monte Bèrico, 12, 201, 205

  Monticello (Virginia), xvii, 217

  Moro, Battista, del, 27

  Morris, Robert, 138–39, 140, 141

  Mount Airy (Virginia), 139, 182

  Mount Vernon (Virginia), 4, 182

  Murano, island of, 103

  Museo Civico (Vicenza), 95

  National Gallery (Berlin), 71

  National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), 99

  Nuthall Temple, 216, 217

  nymphaeum, 148, 162–63, 185

  oculi, 65, 66, 67, 69–70, 80, 87, 92, 205, 206–7, 264

  Odeo, 19

  Of Built Things (Alberti), 13, 40

  ogee molding (cyma recta), 208

  Olympic Academy, 211

  order, architectural, 18, 54–55, 80, 262, 264, 265, 266

  Ospedale degli Innocenti, 40, 92

  Padovano, Gualtiero, 27, 28

  Padua:

  architecture of, 18, 19

  University of, 18, 19, 147, 151

  in Venetian Republic wars, 11

  Pagliarino, Bartolomeo, 71

  Palazzo Antonini, 12, 155, 265

  Palazzo Barbaran, 221

  Palazzo Canossa, 69

  Palazzo Chiericati, 95–98, 97, 103, 116, 157, 187, 261

  Palazzo Civena, 39, 56, 157

  Palazzo da Porto, 73, 157, 186

  Palazzo della Ragione (Vicenza), 74

  Palladio’s Basilica reconstruction of, 75–84, 76, 82, 84, 85, 96, 116, 176, 220, 221, 223, 229, 266

  Palazzo delle Trombe, 229

  Palazzo del Tè, 21

  palazzos, terminology of, 39n

  Palladian (Venetian) windows, see serlianas

  Palladio, Allegradonna, 15, 17, 67

  Palladio, Andrea:

  ancient Roman architecture admired by, 13, 39–42, 59, 198, 209

  archaeological field sketches of, 41–42, 205, 245

  architectural treatise of, see Quattro libri dell’architettura

  birth of, 10, 11

  children of, 17, 116, 177, 222

  commemorative statues of, 223

  construction overseen by, 177, 178

  D. Barbaro’s Vitruvius illustrated by, 147, 149

  death of, 133, 223

  discipline vs. creativity of, 91–92

  drawing techniques of, 41, 45–49

  family background of, 10–11

  financial status of, 63, 77, 116

  genial personality of, 11–12, 22, 114, 178, 224

  later ornate style of, 196, 222

  marriage of, 15

  mentor relationships of, 17–18, 21–23, 39, 84, 148, 221

  name of, 11, 22–23

  palazzos designed by, 39, 56, 73, 95–98, 97, 103, 116, 157, 186, 187

  physical appearance of, iv, 223–24, 251–52

  practical building experience of, 12–13, 177–78

  pupil of, 210–11, 213

  religious-building commissions of, 197–200, 222–23

  Roman guidebooks written by, 41

  Rome visited by, 38–45, 59, 83–84, 148

  sense of harmony conveyed by, 245–46, 247, 249

  social position of, 15, 23, 115, 213, 224

  as stonemason, 10, 11–13, 15, 23, 63, 67, 77, 90, 156, 177–78, 220, 229n, 251–53

  on three criteria of architectural perfection, xi, 90

  Venetian commissions sought by, 116–18, 196–200

  Vicenza Basilica of, 74–84, 76, 82, 84, 85, 96, 116, 176, 220, 221, 223, 229, 251, 266

  as Vicenza city architect, 77

  Palladio, Andrea, villas designed by:

  author’s rental stay in, 225, 226, 231, 234–35, 244–45, 249

  British architecture influenced by, xvii, 56, 99, 132–39, 173, 174, 181, 213–16, 242, 247

  carved details on, 4, 5, 63, 153, 156, 157, 171, 177–78, 220, 246–47

  church commissions vs., 200

  client suitability considered in, 156–57, 191–92

  climate accommodated in, 142, 147

  computerized design program based on, 91

  current states of, xvii, 257–59

  first independent commission of, 7, 9–10

  frescoes in, 24–28, 106–7, 169–70, 175, 183, 186–91, 196, 236, 238, 243

  locations of, xvii, 1, 2, 31, 35, 65, 73, 95, 100–101, 119, 122, 131, 145, 151, 167, 172, 176, 178, 185, 200, 201, 202, 240, 256

  long interior views within, 239

  porticoes of, 98–99, 100, 103, 104, 113, 121, 123, 124, 125, 167, 173, 174, 175, 183, 190, 201–2, 209, 210, 212, 214, 253

  rear façades of, 70, 72, 113, 121, 126, 131, 163–64, 168, 170, 172, 178–79, 185–86, 240

  room proportions in, 108–11, 126n, 237–39

  serenity of, 247

  sophistication vs. rural aptness of, 7, 45, 243, 253

  stylistic anomalies of, 155

  sympathetic relationship to settings of, 68, 146, 159, 210, 240

  underlying consistencies of, 155–56, 182

  unfinished examples of, xviin, 255, 257, 258, 259

  U.S. architecture influenced by, xvii, 56, 99, 132, 139–43, 173, 181–82, 216–19, 242, 247

  see also specific Palladio villas

  Palladio, Leonida, 116, 177, 211, 222

  Palladio, Marc’antonio, 116, 177

  Palladio, Orazio, 116, 177n, 222

  Palladio, Silla, 116, 177, 213, 234

  Palladio, Zenobia, 116


  Palmanova, 149n

  Pantheon, 39, 40, 206

  pattern books, 138

  Paul III, Pope, 84

  Peace of Bologna (1529), 87

  Pedemuro workshop, 12, 14, 63, 75, 220, 229n

  pediments, 55–59, 260, 265, 266

  Perrault, Claude, 99

  Petrarch, 101

  Piazza San Marco, buildings located on, 70, 211

  Pietro dalla Gondola, 10, 13

  pigeons, 152

  pilasters, 262

  Pisani, Daniele, 36

  Pisani, Francesco, 125

  Pisani, Marco, 36

  Pisani, Vettor, 19, 36, 37, 49–53, 63, 73, 125, 211

  Pisani del Banco family, 36–37

  plague epidemics, 196, 222

  plantation houses, xvii, 35, 56, 132, 142–43, 182

  Pliny (the Younger), 43, 44

  Poiana, Angela, 67

  Poiana, Bonifacio, 67, 71, 72, 85, 157, 177

  polenta, 191

  Pope, Alexander, 142

  Pope, John Russell, 99

  Poplar Forest (Virginia), 218

  Po River, 172

  Porlezza, Giovanni da, 12, 13, 18, 20, 75, 77

  porticoes, 174, 190, 253, 265

  in British and U.S. architecture, 99, 132, 140–41, 173, 174

  column size on, 103, 263

  double, 121, 123, 124, 125, 132, 140–41, 262

  intercolumniation on, 104, 264

  Palladio’s initial use of, 57, 98–99

  in quadruple symmetry, 201–2, 209–10, 212, 264

  postmodernism, 118

  privacy, domestic conventions of, 129

  privies, indoor, 130–31

  pulvinated molding, 208, 265

  Quattro libri dell’architettura, I (The four books on architecture) (Palladio), 9, 76, 90, 220, 221

  autobiographical data in, 13

  on ceiling height, 237

  earlier design defects corrected in, 7

  English translations of, 136, 137, 215, 218, 230

  methodical approach of, xviii–xix

  room dimensions in, 108–11, 110, 233–34

  sample page of, 228

  spare prose style of, xviii, 233

  villa clients’ social status noted in, 36

  Vitruvius cited as influence on, 13

  Queen’s House (Greenwich), xvii

  quoins, 265

  ramps, 192–93

  Raphael (Raffaelo Sanzio), 16, 21, 40, 42, 43, 44, 47, 53

  Repeta, Francesco, 177

  Richardson, H. H., 247

  riverside locations, 31, 32, 35, 100, 103, 167, 176, 183

  Roman ruins, 19, 39–42, 205

  Rome:

  ancient buildings in, 39–42

  Renaissance architects of, 42–43, 83, 148

  Sack of (1527), 19–20, 43

  room design:

  ceiling height of, xviii, 237–38

  freestanding columns in, 126–27

  modular proportions in, 188–89

  multiple sizes in, 60

  musical theory as basis of proportion in, 109–11

  shapes of, 36, 108–9, 126–27, 188, 234

  sun movement and, 236

  surface materials of, 235–36

 

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