Palladio

ISBN-13: 9780140135008 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 208 str.

James Sloss Ackerman

Opis

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn and tries to penetrate to the heart of the Palladian miracle. Palladio's theoretical writings are important and illuminating, he suggests, yet they never do justice to the intense intuitive skills of a magician of light and colour. Indeed, as the photographs in this book reveal, Palladio was as sensual, as skilled in visual alchemy as any Venetian painter of his time, and his countless imitators have usually captured the details, but not the essence of his style.