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Title: Andrea Palladio, his life and works
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866-1953
Subjects: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Publisher: London, G. Bell and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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condition of the buildings in thesixteenth century, or as indicating in their restoration byPalladio what he considered their original appearance to be.In Leonis edition the plates are carefully drawn andfigured. Book IV. has an Appendix on the Antiquities ofRome, to which is added A Discourse on the Fires ofthe Ancients, by Palladio. In this appendix is a referenceto the foundation of the city, her principal streets, bridges,hills, the aqueducts leading into Rome, the theatres, amphi-theatres, market-places, triumphal arches, porticoes, obelisks,palaces, courts of justice, granaries, etc. In addition a good deal of interesting information isgiven about the everyday life and customs of the Romans,the population, weddings, education, divorce, funeral andother rites. The discourse on the fires of the ancients refers tothe different kinds of hearths and stoves, and the use ofpipes for introduction of heated air. 48. THE IONIC ORDER.DETAILS OF CAPITAL, SHOWING SETTING-OUT OF VOLUTE, ETC.
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LITERARY WORKS AND DRAWINGS 103 The various editions of Palladios Treatise on Archi-tecture are, as far as possible, given below. Gualdo informs us that certain treatises on architecturepromised to Emanuele Filiberto of Savoia remained un-finished owing to our masters death. It was known that hehad, in the company of Monsignore Daniele Barbaro, visitedthe ruins of the Berga Theatre, outside Vicenza, and, anxiousto discover records of any of these visits, Barichella, who hadbeen a devout disciple of Miglioranza, wrote to ProfessorDonaldson, who kindly charged himself with procuring theDuke of Devonshires permission to peruse the drawings byPalladio then in the Dukes villa at Chiswick, which wasoccupied at that time by the Prince of Wales (now KingEdward VII.). In these inquiries Lady Mary Egerton gaveher assistance, and the quest proved a successful one.Professor Donaldson found the drawing of the theatre,though not signed by Palladio, and forthwith made abeautiful sketch of it. Both B

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