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Villa Pisani, Bagnolo di Lonigo: plan and courtyard elevation
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SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. I Quattro libri dell' architettura (Venice, 1601), book II, p. 47 NOTES: This third edition of Palladio's 'Quattro libri' contains the same woodcut illustrations as the publication's first edition in 1570. The handwritten annotations are thought to have been made by the Irish architect Sir Edward Lovett Pearce.
Villa Thiene, Quinto Vicentino: plan and elevation
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SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. I Quattro libri dell' architettura (Venice, 1570), second book, p. 64
Villa of the ancients: plan and elevation
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SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. I Quattro libri dell' architettura (Venice, 1570), second book, p. 70
Villa Cornaro, Piombino Dese: plan and elevation
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SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. I Quattro libri dell' architettura (Venice, 1581), second book, p. 53
Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli: the so-called heliocaminus (a chamber for winter habitation heated by the sun)
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SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, 1777), pl. 133
Garden of Villa Cusani, Desio: the lake
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SOURCE: Ercole Silva. Dell' arte de' giardini inglesi (Milan, 1813), vol. II, pl. XXXI
J Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles: perspective view of the outer peristyle and villa from the colonnade
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NOTES: The Villa was designed by Langdon Wilson Architects for the oil-magnate J. Paul Getty to house his private art collection adjacent to his home. This his second museum, a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, opened as an art museum in 1974.
J Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles: the Sculpture Garden in the inner peristyle seen from the colonnade
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NOTES: The Villa was designed by Langdon Wilson Architects for the oil-magnate J. Paul Getty to house his private art collection adjacent to his home. This his second museum, a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, opened as an art museum in 1974.
J Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles: the inner peristyle seen from the colonnade
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NOTES: The Villa was designed by Langdon Wilson Architects for the oil-magnate J. Paul Getty to house his private art collection adjacent to his home. This his second museum, a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, opened as an art museum in 1974.
J Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles: the colonnade
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NOTES: The Villa was designed by Langdon Wilson Architects for the oil-magnate J. Paul Getty to house his private art collection adjacent to his home. This his second museum, a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, opened as an art museum in 1974.
