Identifier: andreapalladioh00flet (find matches)
Title: Andrea Palladio, his life and works
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866-1953
Subjects: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Publisher: London, G. Bell and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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bly copied from Sansovino or Michael Angelo. Palladio also employed the semicircular Roman windowdivided into three lights. In the entablature to his orders we find these to begenerally unbroken, but happy effects are sometimes ob-tained, as at the Basilica, Vicenza, by projecting the columnsbeyond the main face of the wall and breaking the entabla-tures around these projections. In the profile of mouldings he was specially careful; thearchitraves and friezes were generally plain, the latter beingsometimes pulvinated, and his cornices have the consolesand other ornaments carefully centred over each other. Interior decoration seems to have been somewhat neg-lected by our master, owing no doubt to want of funds. In regard to his church designs, instead of returning tothe regulation forms of heathen temples, he was probablyobliged for ecclesiastical reasons to keep to the Basilicanor Lombard type of church, and his endeavour was to adaptthe Roman orders to this type. The nave, being con-
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PALLADIO AS AN ARCHITECT siderably higher than the side aisle, had to be treated in-dependently of it, and instead of tiers of arches, he adopteda single order of columns placed on a plinth or on pedestalsand supporting an entablature with pediment over. Theaisles have their inclined roofs marked with half pediments.Types of these are shown in the illustrations. In this chapter an endeavour has been made to sketch afew of the principal characteristics of our masters style andhis chief methods of composition. Perhaps a better resumeof these has not been made than that given by the late Mr.Wyatt Papworth. He says, that of all modern architects,Palladio seems to have had the best taste, the most correctideas, and the greatest influence on his contemporaries.Some have had more boldness and genius, others morefavourable opportunities of displaying their talents in grandand extensive works, but he has the peculiar glory of havingmastered all the features and parts of architecture and ofhavi

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