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Identifier: andreapalladioh00flet (find matches)
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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courtyard at the back is level withthe first floor of the main building. The front view isgiven in Plate No. 30, and gives a very good idea of thesetting of many of our masters country designs, and alsoshows one of the weak points of Italian country architecture,viz., the poor and ineffective treatment of the chimneys,which in this, as in many cases, appear merely as circularflue-pipes without any attempt at grouping or harmonizingwith the architecture. In most of Palladios own drawingsno chimney stacks are shown. This view also shows theIonic columns (3 feet in diameter) of the front, with anunusual arrangement of broken cornice and central window.The capitals are of the angular Ionic form which Palladiohad noticed in describing the Temple of Fortuna Virilisat Rome. In the centre of the back courtyard is a semi-circular recess ornamented with Ionic pilasters, statues,sculptured cornices and festoons, and in the centre of thisrecess is a small basin through which running water passes
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COUNTRY HOUSES 67 into a lake; from whence it is led by pipes to differentportions of the house. The first floor of this design is ofmore importance than usual, no doubt, because it is levelwith the rear courtyard. The windows of this storey whichgive on to the courtyard are perhaps somewhat too closeto those of the floor beneath. The hall is of cruciformplan, and the staircases are entered from the arcades (seePlate 29). House at Montagnana for Nobile Francisco Pisani.—The plan of this, which is unusual, consists of a centralblock (the only part completed) about 80 feet square, con-taining a columned hall with rooms on either side, twostoreys in height and two elliptical open newel staircases atthe rear of the house. On both sides of the main building,at a distance of 30 feet, are two oblong structures containingthree rooms on each floor ; connected with the main buildingby galleries at the first floor level. This peculiar plan wasnecessary because two streets cut the facade into t

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