Palladio: Architect between the Renaissance and Baroque (The Complete Buildings)

Wundram, Manfred & Thomas Pape (text) & Paolo Marton (photos)

ISBN 10: 3822832006 / ISBN 13: 9783822832004

Published by Taschen, Koln, 2004

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Small 4to, 248 pp.

Seller Inventory # 102417

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Palladio: Architect between the Renaissance and Baroque (The Complete Buildings)
• Publisher: Taschen, Koln
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3822832006
• ISBN 13: 9783822832004
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Profusely illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

<div>No other architect in the history of Western art has had an influence so spontaneous and yet so enduring as Andrea Palladio. Palladianism broke through all cultural stylistic barriers. It spread not only throughout the Neo-Latin nations but held Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the countries of Eastern Europe in its sway and formed the lineaments of English architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Palladio lived in an age which was extremely exciting for the historical development of architecture and his work was an important factor in the evolution from Renaissance to Baroque. This volume offers a thorough</div>

About the Author

Manfred Wundram, born in 1925, is professor of medieval and modern art history at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. He has gained worldwide recognition with numerous publications on 14th to 16th century art and is known to the wider public for his general accounts of Renaissance art. Thomas Pape was born in Dortmund in 1963. He studied art history, history and German literature and philology at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. Born in Treviso in 1942, Paolo Marton trained as a bookseller. He has devoted himself to photography since 1977 and has a number of successful publications to his name, including a book of photographs of Rome and the villas of Veneto. Marton works for a number of magazines, and several public exhibitions have been held of his photography.