Andrea Palladio Author:Banister Fletcher Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III PALLADIO AS AN ARCHITECT HOWEVER interesting the particulars of our master's life may be, the great lessons which he taught are best found in t... more »he buildings which he designed. Although many of these were not carried out, or only partially so, we are fortunate in having his designs. Many of these are to be found in " I quattro libri dell' Architettura," published in Venice in 1570, a book which has passed through countless editions and has been translated into almost every European language. Palladio's own book, however, does not contain all his designs, but works by other authors contain a complete list, and in some instances include designs which are only reputed to be his. Of these the four volumes entitled " Les Batimens et les Desseins de André Palladio, recueillis et illustrés, par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi " are perhaps the most complete. Many editions of this were published, but perhaps the best was published in Vicenza in 1796 (in Italian and French). The four volumes contain over 200 plates, and are divided as follows : volume i contains the buildings erected at Vicenza ; volumes 2 and 3, buildings erected in the environs of Vicenza; volume 4, the churches which were erected at Venice, and other buildings in different parts of Italy. This latter volume also contains designs which have not been carried out. Amongst such a mass of material it has become rather difficult to make a selection of illustrations whichshall be representative of his methods of design, especially having regard to the limitation of this work. It is hoped, however, that within the limit at our disposal, such a selection has been made as will enable the reader to form a good idea of our master's methods. In regard to the buildings themselves, we have thought it best to divide them...« less