The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books containing a Short Treatise on the Five Orders (L'Architecture de A. Palladio en quatre livres... / Il quattro libri dell'architettura)

James [Giacomo] Leoni|John Watts|Bernard Picart|Michael Vandergucht|John Harris, the elder|Nicholas DuBois|Andrea Palladio

1715 [1716–20] · Illustrations: etching and engraving · Drawings and Prints

Palladio's treatise, republished in this lavish two-volume edition by Giacomo Leoni in London (1715) as The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books, with refined prints by Bernard Picart and John Harris, greatly influenced the classical idiom typical for eighteenth-century Georgian building style in England. This is evidenced by the building projects and publications of the foremost architects of the period, including Richard Boyle, third earl of Burlington; his protégé the landscape designer William Kent; and the famous author Colen Campbell, whose book Vitruvius Britannicus (1715) became the model for Palladian architecture in England.

Artist

James [Giacomo] Leoni|John Watts|Bernard Picart|Michael Vandergucht|John Harris, the elder|Nicholas DuBois|Andrea Palladio

Date

1715 [1716–20]

Medium

Illustrations: etching and engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941