Resumen:
Venetian Villas. This monumental work is a meticulously detailed survey of nearly eighty superb villas in the province of the Veneto.Many are Palladian, and their unique splendor is vividly captured in 400 full-color phtographs.Dotted over the evocative landscape adjacent to Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso, and other centers, world-famous country houses, manors, and villas rise from magnificent natural settings.Those designed by the great Andreas Palladio and his followers inspired celebrated houses and palaces in eighteenth-century Britain, and similar buildings in late Colonial and early Federal America.HC, coffee table, 497 pages. |
