When the 16th-century canon Paolo Almerico retired from his position at the Vatican, he aspired to do just that—relocate from Rome to a rural villa ... Andrea Palladio, a Renaissance architect ...

Palladio too recited numbers obsessively in the drawings ... without apparent function and totally memorable”, La Rotonda was compared with the Villa Savoye, just as the layouts of La Malcontenta were ...

Almerico Capra Villa called La Rotonda by Andrea Palladio. The 17th century English architect Inigo Jones, famous for his symmetrical, well-proportioned country houses, would follow its example ...

The building elevated above all others as an expression of these aspirations is Palladio’s Villa Capra, ‘La Rotonda’. Situated in the hills outside Vicenza, its plan is bold in its simplicity. It ...

When Lord Burlington designed Chiswick House in London, it is easy to see how his inspiration came from Palladio's Villa Rotonda. But in fact Chiswick House - which was built to store Lord ...

Palladio was happy to help them spend it. Image Palladio’s own drawing of Villa Rotonda.Credit...From “The Architecture of A. Palladio,” (1715-20), RIBA British Architectural Library Most ...

The Villa Rotonda achieves its perfection because of its cocktail of antique elements. Houses used to have big thick walls but Palladio saw that something more was needed to signify the entrance.

The building elevated above all others as an expression of these aspirations is Palladio’s Villa Capra, ‘La Rotonda’. Situated in the hills outside Vicenza, its plan is bold in its simplicity. It ...