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Title: An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894
Subjects: Architecture Architects
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Architecture Landscape Design - University of Toronto
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practice of the ancients does the style of our master ajjjjcar to be, th:itit is, with but few modifications, suited to all nations, and just such as the ancients themselveswould have adopted. Les fermes, observes Le Grand in his parallele, que diriieaitIalladio et ()uil couvrait de tuiles on duii chaume rustique, Iemportent de beaucoup surles ))alais somptueux de Porromini, ou sur les riches et bizarres productions de Guariiio(iuarini. Certain, indeed, it is that simplicity, unity, and style are more powerful meansiif producing grandeur, than great volume or large masses unskilfully handled. A tine in-stance of this is seen in the fa9ade of the Thiene palace at \icenza, fig. 175. ( See next paqe ) 354. The number of ))alaces and villas with which Palladio emiched the Venetian and\icentine territories is almost incredible: the variety of plan and elevation in them seems*s inexhaustible as iheir luunber. To the buildings above referred to may be added the 1/50 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTUKE.
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Fig. IT.i. ElB Chap. II. I TALI.AN. 151 Carita at Vfuice. wliicli is a lovely specimen of liis style. His grandest cliurch is tliat DelRetlentore at Venice. Generally in the facades of his churches tliere are abuses, whereof it isscarcely credible he would have been guilty: such are the two half jjediments in the churchwe have just mentioned. The theatre built iijion the ancient model for the Olympic.Academy at Vicenza gained great rejjutation for him. Palladio died in 1580. ^35. The last architect of the Venetian school who obtained celebrity was VincenzoScamozzi. The son of an architect, and born in a country which had become the nurseryof the art, his powers were exhibited at an early age. Like Ialladio and other greatmasters, he selected for his principal guides the antiquities of the Eternal City, and thej)recei)ts of Vitruvius, whose work at that period was considered of high importance, as intruth it really was. There is no doubt that Scamoz/.i was much indebted to the worksof

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