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For Palladio, the Quattro Libri served both a polemical and a promotional purpose.
WSJ: Ada Louise Huxtable | Her Critical Judgments Were Built to Last
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Palladio's "Four Books of Architecture" became an essential part of every distinguished library, including that of Thomas Jefferson, who helped himself liberally to their examples.
WSJ: Ada Louise Huxtable | Her Critical Judgments Were Built to Last
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Through careful, and often conjectural reconstruction of Vitruvius's descriptions, Palladio established the standard for the way Renaissance architects saw and used the buildings of the ancient world.
WSJ: Palladio & His Legacy, at the Morgan Library & Museum | By Ada Louise Huxtable
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But the best reason of all is the way these seductively beautiful drawings reveal the real Palladio, as opposed to all the pallid imitations that have followed.
WSJ: Palladio & His Legacy, at the Morgan Library & Museum | By Ada Louise Huxtable
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All that Palladio learned from Vitruvius and from two later trips to Rome in the 1540s became the basis of the most influential books on architecture ever written, his Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, published in Venice in 1570.
WSJ: Palladio & His Legacy, at the Morgan Library & Museum | By Ada Louise Huxtable
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The fact that Palladio's drawings still exist may well be due to the English passion for collecting all things Greek and Roman or of later, classical inspiration and carting them back home (the contested Elgin marbles, for one conspicuous example).
WSJ: Palladio & His Legacy, at the Morgan Library & Museum | By Ada Louise Huxtable
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Translated into French in 1650 and retranslated into English in 1663, with expanded English versions in 1715 and 1720, Palladio's "Four Books of Architecture" became an essential part of every distinguished library, including that of Thomas Jefferson, who helped himself liberally to their examples.
WSJ: Palladio & His Legacy, at the Morgan Library & Museum | By Ada Louise Huxtable
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Sponsored by the RIBA Trust and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, the show also features handsome new models and some of the earliest publications of Palladio's work from the RIBA's and the Morgan's collections, including Lord Burlington's own copy of the Quattro Libri.
WSJ: Palladio & His Legacy, at the Morgan Library & Museum | By Ada Louise Huxtable