Item #179808 The Hand of Palladio. Paolo Portoghesi, Lorenzo Capellini.
The Hand of Palladio
The Hand of Palladio

The Hand of Palladio

Turin/ New York: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2008. Hardcover. Aqua boards with black lettering on spine, matching aqua dust jacket with black and red lettering and color illustrated, 267 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color throughout. VG+/VG. Item #179808
ISBN: 9788842216803

"The original approach of this book is to investigate Palladio's personal touch, not just in the decorative details such as mouldings, and capitals but in how he composes the base of a building, resolves a vault, turns the corner with a frieze and so on, in short, the questions all architects had to solve if their buildings were to be wholly harmonious. Lorenzo Capellini has taken the over three hundred photographs in this book of all Palladio's surviving buildings. The test is by the famous Italian architect and architectural historia, Paolo Portoghesi, who has long championed the cause of re-establishing a link between modernity and tradition. Basing himself on a profound knowledge of the scholarly literature, but also his direct experience as a practising architect of Palladio's buildings, Portoghesi aims to give us inside information about the inner workings of Palladio's mind and his buildings. This book is topical, not just because the quincentenary of Palladio's birth falls in 2008, but because of the current debate over the desirability of roots and continuity in contemporary architecture, and the need for a more intimate understanding of this very great architect whose invention has shaped so many buildings right down to our times."- dust jacket.

OCLC: 290412661

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