The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio (35 page)

6
. Palladio,
Four Books,
5.

7
. Ibid., 163.

8
. Rudolf Wittkower,
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
(London: Academy Editions, 1998), 63.

9
. James S. Ackerman,
Palladio
(New York: Penguin Books, 1966), 177.

10
. Palladio,
Four Books,
273.

11
. 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.

12
. See Lewis,
Drawings,
112.

13
. Henry Petroski,
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 36–40.

14
. 
The Palladio Drawings: Palladio. Smythson. Adam
(London: Royal Institute of British Architects, undated), 1.

15
. RIBA Palladio XI/22,
verso.
See Lewis,
Drawings,
226–27.

16
. RIBA Palladio XVII/2,
verso.
See Lewis,
Drawings,
108–9.

17
. Palladio,
Four Books,
57.

18
. Leon Battista Alberti,
On the Art of Building in Ten Books,
trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988), 310.

19
. Palladio,
Four Books,
77.

20
. RIBA Palladio XVII/18,
verso.
See Lewis,
Drawings,
108–9.

21
. Vincenzo Scamozzi quoted in Lionello Puppi,
Palladio Drawings,
trans. Jeremy Scott (New York: Rizzoli, 1989), 22.

22
.  RIBA Palladio XVI/7. See Lewis,
Drawings,
109–12.

23
. RIBA XVII/17. See Lewis,
Drawings,
113–15.

24
. Lionello Puppi,
Andrea Palladio,
trans. Pearl Sanders (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), 255.

25
. Paul Holberton,
Palladio’s Villas: Life in the Renaissance Countryside
(London: John Murray, 1990), 215–19.

26
. Andrea Palladio,
I quattro libri dell’architettura
(reprint, Milan: Ulrico Hoepli Editore Libraio, 1980), Book IV, 37.

27
. Palladio,
Four Books,
147.

28
. Ibid.

29
. Alberti,
On the Art of Building,
301.

30
. Palladio,
Four Books,
78.

31
. Deborah Howard,
Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaissance Venice
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1975),125.

32
. Ibid., 124.

C
HAPTER 3
: T
HE
A
RCHED
D
EVICE

1
. Vitruvius,
The Ten Books on Architecture,
trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 80.

2
. Andrea Palladio,
The Four Books on Architecture,
trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), 233.

3
. Caroline Constant,
The Palladio Guide
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993), 58.

4
. RIBA Palladio XVI/3. See Douglas Lewis,
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio
(New Orleans: Martin & St. Martin, 2000), 132.

5
. See Lewis,
Drawings,
133.

6
. RIBA Palladio XVI/4.

7
. RIBA Palladio, XVI/4
verso.

8
. See Lewis,
Drawings.

9
. Palladio,
Four Books,
136.

10
. For background on the Palazzo della Ragione, see Franco Barbieri,
The Basilica of Andrea Palladio,
Corpus Palladianum, vol. 2 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1970).

11
. For currency conversion, see James S. Ackerman,
Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991), 381, fn. 25.

12
. Palladio,
Four Books,
17.

13
. 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), 2015.

14
. Palladio,
Four Books,
203.

15
. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Italian Journey,
trans. W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982), 47.

16
. Lionello Puppi,
Andrea Palladio,
trans. Pearl Sanders (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), 269.

17
. Paolo Gualdo, “Life of Palladio” (1616), in Lewis,
Drawings,
3.

18
. Georgina Masson, “Palladian Villas as Rural Centres,”
Architectural Review,
July 1955, 20.

19
. Palladio,
Four Books,
114.

20
. Ibid., 136.

21
. Denis Cosgrove,
The Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change and Its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy
(Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1993), 149.

22
. Palladio,
Four Books,
6.

23
. George Hersey and Richard Freedman,
Possible Palladian Villas (Plus a Few Instructively Impossible Ones
) (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992).

24
. Palladio,
Four Books,
56.

C
HAPTER 4
: O
N THE
B
RENTA

1
. Quoted by Lionello Puppi,
Andrea Palladio,
trans. Pearl Sanders (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), 281.

2
. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Italian Journey,
trans. W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982), 47.

3
. See Douglas Lewis,
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio
(New Orleans: Martin & St. Martin, 2000), 196–99.

4
. A. C. Landsberg, “An Historic Italian Villa; Malcontenta, Part I,”
Country Life
82 (October 16, 1937): 400.

5
. John Ruskin,
The Stones of Venice,
vol. 1 (New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1979), 344.

6
. Quoted by Erik Forssman,
Visible Harmony: Palladio’s Villa Foscari at
Malcontenta,
trans. Gordon Irons (Stockholm: Sveriges Arkitekturmuseum and Konsthögskolans Arkitekturskla, 1973), 12.

7
. Leon Battista Alberti,
On the Art of Building in Ten Books,
trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988), 151.

8
. Ibid., 295.

9
. Michelangelo Muraro,
Venetian Villas: The History and Culture,
trans. Peter Lauritzen et al. (New York: Rizzoli, 1986), 120.

10
. Alberti,
On the Art of Building.

11
. Vitruvius,
The Ten Books on Architecture,
trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 51.

12
. Ibid., 112.

13
. Paul Johnson,
The Renaissance: A Short History
(New York: The Modern Library, 2000), 79.

14
. Lewis,
Drawings,
198.

15
. Forssman,
Visible Harmony.

16
. Andrea Palladio,
The Four Books on Architecture,
trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), 128.

17
. See Douglas Lewis, “Patterns of Preference: Patronage of Sixteenth-Century Architects by the Venetian Patriciate,” in
Patronage in the Renaissance,
eds. Guy Fitch Lytle and Stephen Orgel (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981), 374.

18
. Palladio,
Four Books,
57.

19
. Rudolf Wittkower,
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
(London: Academy Editions, 1998), 119–29.

20
. Ibid., 111.

21
. Ibid., 122.

22
. Deborah Howard and Malcolm Longair, “Harmonic Proportion and Palladio’s
Quattro Libri,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
41, no. 2 (May 1982): 116–42.

23
. Ibid., 116.

24
. Ibid., 137.

25
. Vitruvius,
Ten Books,
180.

26
. Palladio,
Four Books,
59.

27
. Ibid., 128.

28
. Quoted in Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Robert B. C. M. Carrère, “Villas of the Veneto: I. The Villa Emo at Fanzolo,”
The Architectural Forum
34, no. 1 (January 1921): 6.

29
. Palladio,
Four Books,
77.

30
. Howard Burns,
Andrea Palladio, 1508–1580: The portico and the farmyard
(London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975), 69.

31
. James S. Ackerman,
Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991), 365.

32
. Michael Baxandall,
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1972), 6–7.

33
. Quoted by Howard Burns, “Building and Construction in Palladio’s Vicenza,” in
Les chantiers de la Renaissance,
ed. J. Guillaume (Paris: Picard, 1991), 212.

34
. Ibid., 75.

35
. Burns,
Andrea Palladio,
69.

36
. Manfredo Tafuri,
Venice and the Renaissance,
trans. Jessica Levine (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989), 130.

C
HAPTER 5
: P
ORTICOES

1
. See Douglas Lewis, “Patterns of Preference: Patronage of Sixteenth-Century Architects by the Venetian Patriciate,” in
Patronage in the Renaissance,
eds. Guy Fitch Lytle and Stephen Orgel (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981), 372–74.

2
. Andrea Palladio,
The Four Books on Architecture,
trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), 112.

3
. My thanks to Douglas Lewis, who is writing a monograph on the Villa Cornaro, for suggesting how the upper
sala
was used.

4
. Palladio,
Four Books,
79.

5
. John Summerson,
Inigo Jones
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000), 107.

6
. Ibid., 4.

7
. A. A. Tait, “Inigo Jones—Architectural Historian,”
Burlington Magazine
112 (1970): 234–35.

8
. Quoted by Nikolaus Pevsner,
An Outline of European Architecture
(Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1958), 219–20.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Colen Campbell,
Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect,
vol. 1 (London, 1715), 1–2.

11
. James Gibbs,
A book of Architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments
(London: 1739).

12
. Richard L. Bushman,
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), 102.

13
. Robert Morris,
Select Architecture
(London, 1757), unpaginated.

14
. Ibid., Plate 36.

15
. Ibid., unpaginated.

16
. Bushman,
Refinement of America,
xii–xiii.

17
. Thomas Jefferson,
Notes on the State of Virginia,
ed. William Peden (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955), 152.

18
. Quoted by Jack McLaughlin,
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder
(New York: Henry Holt, 1998), 54.

19
. Henry Wotton,
The Elements of Architecture
(London: 1624), 10.

20
. Alexander Pope,
Epistle to Lord Burlington
(London, 1731).

C
HAPTER 6
: T
HE
B
ROTHERS
B
ARBARO

1
. Douglas Lewis,
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio
(New Orleans: Martin & St. Martin, 2000), 204.

2
. Quoted by Lionello Puppi,
The Villa Badoer at Fratta Polesine,
Corpus Palladium, vol. 7, trans. Catherine Enggass (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975), 36.

3
. Lionello Puppi,
Andrea Palladio,
trans. Pearl Sanders (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), 315.

4
. Inge Jackson Reist, “Renaissance Harmony: The Villa Barbaro at Maser” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1985), 130–66.

5
. Howard Burns,
Andrea Palladio, 1508–1580: The portico and the farmyard
(London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975), 197.

6
. Andrea Palladio,
The Four Books on Architecture,
trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), 78.

7
. Reist, “Renaissance Harmony,” 10.

8
. Ibid., 129.

9
. Carolyn Kolb, “The Sculptures on the Nymphaeum Hemicycle of the Villa Barbaro at Maser,”
Artibus et Historiae
18, no. 35 (1977): 30.

10
. Burns,
Andrea Palladio,
196.

11
. Palladio,
Four Books,
144.