LE FABBRICHE E I DISEGNI DI ANDREA PALLADIO E LE TERME. Nuova Ed. Italiana Foggiata Sulla Vicentinese di Bertotti Scamozzi Ampliata e Fornita di Note da Celestino Foppiani

Five volumes bound in three. A beautiful 19th Century edition of the monumental critical “Opera” of Palladio of Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, expanded with the commentary and notes of Celestino Foppiani. With a total of 233 impressive folio copper engraved plates. Large folio, finely bound in morocco backed boards with titles and numbers on the handsomely decorated spine in gilt. 3 cc., 135; 3 cc., 88; 3 cc., 72; 3 cc., 92; xiv, 28. Engraved Plates: LII, LI, LI, LIV, XXV. A very handsome and pleasing copy of this important and beautiful book, with some expected evidence of wear and use, some typical or occasional staining to some leaves because of use.

Edizione: scarce and beautiful printing of the magnificent “scamozzi palladio” with the commentary ottavio scamozzi first written between 1776 and 1785. containing full commentary and notes on each building and the commentary and notes of architect celestino foppiani.<br> palladio's designs and work to this day remain the central pillar of classical architecture and all architecture which followed.<br> ‘palladio’s lasting influence on architectural style in many parts of the world was exercised less through his actual buildings than through this, his textbook. the book is divided into four sections: orders and elementary problems, domestic building, public building and town planning and temples. palladio’s style was directly inspired by roman classical models through the writings of vitruvius and alberti. its characteristics are those of classicism: symmetry, order, fixed mathematical relations of the parts to each other and to the whole, logic and monumentality. <br> palladio followed the rules of classical roman architecture more closely than any other architect.in spite of the vogue for the baroque and the fact that palladio left no immediate successors, his book exerted a powerful influence on contemporary architecture and classical ideals until the end of the eighteenth century.<br> as a practicing architect palladio worked mainly in vicenza, venice and the venetian countryside, especially along the brenta river. his villa capra (known as la rotonda) near vicenza became virtually a prototype of the palladian style, and it was widely and faithfully copied. at the end of his life he left plans for the tour de force of trompe l’oeil, the teatro olimpico in vicenza, which was finished by his pupil vincenzo scamozzi.’