The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio (36 page)

12
. Bruce Boucher, “Nature and the Antique in the Work of Andrea Palladio,”
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
59, no. 3 (September 2000):296.

13
. Palladio,
Four Books,
77.

14
. Ibid.

15
. This theatrical use of the terrace was suggested by Douglas Lewis.

16
. See Michelangelo Muraro,
Venetian Villas: The History and Culture,
trans. Peter Lauritzen et al. (New York: Rizzoli, 1986), 146–47.

17
. Giorgio Vasari,
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects,
trans. Gaston Du C. de Vere, vol. 3 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979), 1580.

18
. Kurt W. Forster, “Back to the Farm: Vernacular Architecture and the Development of the Renaissance Villa,”
Architectura
1 (1974): 12.

19
. Palladio,
Four Books,
56.

20
. RIBA Palladio XVI/5
verso.
See Lewis,
Drawings,
203–4.

21
. The original has been lost; a copy by John Webb is in the Worcester College Library, I/65. Thanks to Douglas Lewis for providing his own sketch.

22
. For different interpretations see Richard Cocke, “Veronese and Daniele Barbaro: The Decoration of Villa Maser,”
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
35 (1972): 231–32; Inge Jackson Reist, “
Divine Love
and Veronese’s Frescoes at the Villa Barbaro,”
Art Bulletin
67, no. 4 (December 1985): 622–23; Charles Hope, “Veronese and the Venetian Tradition of Allegory,”
British Academy Proceedings
61 (1985): 416; Douglas Lewis, “The Iconography of Veronese’s Frescoes in the Villa Barbaro at Maser,” in
Nuovi Studi su Paolo Veronese
(Venice: Arsenale, 1990), 319–20.

23
. Mary Rogers, “An ideal wife at the Villa Maser: Veronese, the Barbaros and Renaissance theorists of marriage,”
Renaissance Studies
7 (December 1993): 379–84.

24
. Mary McCarthy,
The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed
(Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1985), 264–65.

25
. Cocke, “Veronese and Daniele Barbaro,” 226.

C
HAPTER 7
: A
N
I
MMENSELY
P
LEASING
S
IGHT

1
. Andrea Palladio,
The Four Books on Architecture,
trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), 126.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Giorgio Vasari,
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects,
trans. Gaston Du C. de Vere, vol. 3 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979), 2018.

5
. Palladio,
Four Books.

6
. Ibid.

7
. John Summerson,
Inigo Jones
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000), 80.

8
. Quoted by Georgina Masson, “Palladian Villas as Rural Centres,”
Architectural Review,
July 1955, 20.

9
. Lionello Puppi,
The Villa Badoer at Fratta Polesine,
Corpus Palladium, vol. 7, trans. Catherine Enggass (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975), 13.

10
. Ibid., 35.

11
. Palladio,
Four Books,
18.

12
. Paolo Gualdo, “Life of Palladio” (1616), in Douglas Lewis,
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio
(New Orleans: Martin & St. Martin, 2000), 12.

13
. Puppi,
Villa Badoer,
46–47.

14
. RIBA Palladio X/1,
verso.
See Lewis,
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio
, 164.

15
. Facsimile of Inigo Jones’s copy of Andrea Palladio,
I quattro libri dell’architettura,
vol. 2 (Venice, 1570), 66.

16
. Summerson,
Inigo Jones,
116.

17
. Palladio,
Four Books,
138.

18
. Allan Greenberg,
George Washington Architect
(London: Andreas Papadakis Publisher, 1999), 20.

19
. 
Allan Greenberg: Selected Works,
Architectural Monograph No. 39 (London: Academy Editions, 1995), 86–101.

20
. Ibid., 75–79.

21
. Palladio,
Four Books,
156.

C
HAPTER 8
: E
MO

1
. Andrea Palladio,
The Four Books on Architecture,
trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), 133.

2
. Vincent Scully,
The Villas of Palladio,
photographs by Philip Trager (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1986), 132.

3
. Giampaolo Bordignon Favero,
The Villa Emo at Fanzolo,
Corpus Palladium, vol. 5, trans. Douglas Lewis (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1972), 31.

4
. Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Robert B. C. M. Carrère, “Villas of
the Veneto: I. The Villa Emo at Fanzolo,”
Architectural Forum
34, no. 1 (January 1921): 3.

5
. Favero,
Villa Emo,
25; Martin Kubelik, “Palladio’s Villas in the Tradition of the Veneto Farm,”
Assemblage,
October 1986, 99–100; Paul Holberton,
Palladio’s Villas: Life in the Renaissance Countryside
(London: John Murray, 1990), 187–88.

6
. Palladio,
Four Books,
123. See also Kubelik, “Palladio’s Villas,” 99–100.

7
. Palladio,
Four Books.

8
. Gabriele Poggendorf,
Palladio’s Emo in Fanzolo
(Berlin: Marcetus Verlag, 1995), 36.

9
. Giampaolo Bordignon Favero,
Villa Emo,
trans. Shirley Guiton (Padua: Romano Bertoncello Brotto Editore, 1983), unpaginated.

10
. Giorgio Vasari,
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects,
trans. Gaston Du C. de Vere, vol. 3 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979), 2017.

11
. Palladio,
Four Books,
105.

12
. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters,
trans. T. J. Reed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 89.

13
. Vasari,
Lives,
2016.

14
. Tomasso Temanza,
Vite dei più celebri architetti e scultori Veneziani
(Milan: Edizioni Labor, 1966), 395. Translation by author.

15
. Vasari,
Lives,
2019.

16
. Ibid., 2017.

C
HAPTER 9
: T
HE
L
AST
V
ILLA

1
. Andrea Palladio,
The Four Books on Architecture,
trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), 94.

2
. Ibid.

3
. RIBA Palladio XVII/1. See Douglas Lewis,
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio
(New Orleans: Martin & St. Martin, 2000), 103.

4
. RIBA Palladio XVI/19B. See Lewis,
Drawings,
103.

5
. Palladio,
Four Books,
138.

6
. RIBA Palladio IX/8 and IX/7. See Lewis,
Drawings,
187–88.

7
. Camillo Semenzato,
The Rotonda of Andrea Palladio,
Corpus Palladium, vol. 1, trans. Ann Percy (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1968), 12–13, fn. 1.

8
. Ibid., 21, fn. 11.

9
. Martin Kubelik, “Palladio’s Villas in the Tradition of the Veneto Farm,”
Assemblage,
October 1986, 107.

10
. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Italian Journey,
trans. W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982), 50.

11
. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters,
trans. T. J. Reed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 46.

12
. Vitruvius,
The Ten Books on Architecture,
trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 73.

13
. Semenzato,
Rotonda,
21, fn. 12.

14
. William Kent,
Designs of Inigo Jones,
vol. 2 (Farnborough, U.K.: Gregg Press, 1967), plates 14, 16, 17, 18.

15
. John Harris,
The Palladians
(London: Trefoil Books, 1981), 59.

16
. Colen Campbell,
Vitruvius Brittanicus: or The British Architect,
vol. 1 (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1967), 8.

17
. RIBA Palladio XVII/15. See Lewis,
Drawings,
99.

18
. Howard Colvin and John Harris, “The Architect of Foots Cray Place,”
Georgian Group Journal
7 (1997): 1–8.

19
. Lucille McWane Watson, “Thomas Jefferson’s Other Home,”
Antiques,
April 1957, 343.

20
. Palladio,
Four Books,
94.

21
. Ibid.

22
. See James S. Ackerman,
Palladio
(New York: Penguin Books, 1966), 70; Robert Tavernor,
Palladio and Palladianism
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1991), 78.

23
. Semenzato,
Rotonda,
12–13, fn. 1.

24
. Ibid., 5, 67.

25
. Lionello Puppi,
Andrea Palladio,
trans. Pearl Sanders (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), 315–16.

26
. Bruce Boucher, “The Last Will of Daniele Barbaro,”
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
42 (1979): 280.

27
. Ackerman,
Palladio,
184.

C
HAPTER 10
: P
ALLADIO’S
S
ECRET

1
. Giorgio Vasari,
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects,
trans. Gaston Du C. de Vere, vol. 3 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979), 2016.

2
. Dan Cruikshank, “Jewel in the Crown,”
Perspectives,
May 1994, 34–38.

3
. Richard Haslam, “Villa Saraceno, Veneto, Italy,”
Country Life,
October 6, 1994, 45.

4
. Andrea Palladio,
The Four Books of Architecture,
trans. Isaac Ware (New York: Dover Publications, 1965), 50–51.

5
. Christopher Alexander et al.,
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 877–79.

6
. Andrea Palladio,
Four Books on Architecture,
trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), 59.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Italian Journey,
trans. W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982), 47.

9
. Lucy Archer,
Raymond Erith: Architect
(Burford, Oxfordshire: Cygnet Press, 1985), 75.

10
. Palladio,
Four Books,
7.

11
. John Summerson,
Heavenly Mansions: and Other Essays on Architecture
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1963), 14.

12
. Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi,
Le Fabbriche e I Desegni de Andrea Palladio,
vol. 2, (Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1786), Plate 24.

13
. Palladio,
Four Books
(trans. Isaac Ware), 213.

Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations.

acanthus leaves,
55
,
261
,
262

Accademia di Belli Arte,
197

Accademia Trissiniana,
17
,
83

Ackerman, James S.,
xviii
,
41
,
115
,
223

Adam, Robert,
181
,
247

agriculture,
38
,
89
–90,
142
,
157
,
159
,
176
,
191

Alberti, Leon Battista,
13
,
48
,
57

church façades designed by,
153
,
199

Composite order identified by,
55

on villas as summer retreats,
101
,
103

Vitruvius reworked by,
40
,
90

all’antica
style,
16
,
17
–18,
19
,
93
,
133
,
160
,
177
,
197
,
241
–43

All the Works of Architecture and Perspective (Tutte l’opere d’architettura et perspectiva
) (Serlio),
20

Almerico, Paolo,
219
,
220

amezati,
61
,
63

Ammannati, Bartolomeo,
148

Angarano, Giacomo,
146
–47,
221

Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I, King of England,
133
,
135

Antichità di Roma, L’
(Palladio),
41

Antonini, Florio,
125
,
155

apses,
36
,
42
,
261

architects:

client demands vs. design imperatives of,
114
–15,
156
–57

domestic commissions as showcases of,
118

mechanical artisans vs.,
13
–14

payment of,
63
,
115
–16

previous artistic careers of,
10