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Reinhart Wolf VENETIAN VILLAS Photographs DIE VILLEN VON VENETIEN Harold Acton

by Reinhart Wolf, Harold Acton, Lauritzen Peter

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img{max-width:100%} Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping. We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. Die Villen von Venetien Hardcover – 1 Jan. 1987 by Lauritzen Peter und Harold Acton (Author) Photographs by Reinhart Wolf First Edition 1987 by Heyne Verlag, Large Quarto Format HARDCOVER w Dustjacket 200 pages. Essays and Photos of the Palladio and other rural villas of the Veneto, many spectacular drawings, and full page or double spread color photos. Andrea Palladio's designs are the center of this illustrated book which reveals the villas built in the Veneto region of Italy. Thirty villas are featured inside and out - grand palazzos built for Venice's patrician rulers as well as smaller country houses originally owned by wealthy merchants. The villas of the Veneto, the area surrounding Venice, Padua, Treviso and Vicenza - reached a peak of perfection in the sixteenth century. They were built by prosperous Venetians who, feeling claustrophobic in Venice, spent the spring and autumn inland. In the extent to which the villas revived the forms of classical architecture they surpassed those anywhere else in Italy. The result was that the architecture of these country houses, particularly the work of Palladio, had a profound influence throughout the world. This book reveals aspects

  • Publisher: Heyne
  • Year: 1987
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: Very Good

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