Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields.
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. This edition makes The Four Books available for the first time in more than 200 years to the English-speaking public.Paperback. Faithful and accurate in the translation and in its reproduction of the exquisite original engravings, it has long been a rare, sought-after work. This is a republication of the Isaac Ware English edition of 1738.
In all, the text is illustrated by over 200 magnificently engraved plates, showing edifices, either of Palladio's own design or reconstructed (in these drawings) by him from classical ruins and contemporary accounts.Īll the original plates are reproduced in this new single-volume edition in full size and in clear, sharp detail. Plates 51 to 60 are plans and architectural sketches of the Pantheon.
In the Fourth Book, Palladio reproduces the designs of a number of ancient Roman temples. The Third Book is concerned with streets, bridges, piazzas, and basilicas, most of which are of ancient Roman origin. Each plate gives a front view drawing of the building and the general floor plan. Shown and described are many of his villas in and near Venice and Vicenza (including the famous Villa Capra, or "The Rotunda," the Thiene Palace, and the Valmarana Palace). The Second Book deals with private houses and mansions, almost all of Palladio's own design. Palladio indicates the characteristic features of each order and supplies illustrations of various architectural details. The First Book is devoted to building materials and techniques and the five orders of architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The Four Books of Architecture offers a compendium of Palladio's art and of the ancient Roman structures that inspired him. But of even greater consequence was his remarkable magnum opus, "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura" translated into every major Western European language in the two centuries following its publication in 1570, it has been one of the most influential books in the history of architecture. The wide spread of Palladianism was due partly to the private and public buildings he constructed in Italy, the designs of which were copied throughout Europe. Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Renaissance, so important that the term Palladian has been applied to a particular style of architecture that adheres to classical concepts.