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The Villas of Palladio | 
 enlarge | Authors: Giovanni Giaconi, Kim Williams
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $249.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 54760
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 9.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1568983964
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.8092
EAN: 9781568983967
ASIN: 1568983964
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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Condition: New. However, Has Nick to DJ. Great Reading Copy. Ships From San Francisco.
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Product Description
His sixteenth-century villas in the Italian Veneto revolutionized the course of architecture, and the principles on which he based his work are still used today. For the past several years, Italian water colorist Giovanni Giaconi has devoted his talents to creating exquisite large-format pen-and-ink watercolor renderings of all thirty-two of Palladio's villas. Each drawing captures the timeless beauty of Palladian architecture and provides a detailed record of these masterpieces. Together with brief descriptions of each villa, samples of Giaconi's preparatory sketches, and Palladio's own woodcuts, these works of art leave a deep impression of Palladio's oeuvre and give the reader an opportunity to compare the original designs with the actual buildings and their present state of conservation. Giovanni Giaconi is an artist and designer Living in Vicenza.
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 A Must Have! December 5, 2007
This painstakingly precise and loving study of all of Andrea Palladio's 32 villas is a work of art in itself. In preserving the aspect of each one in watercolor, artist Giovanni Giaconi captures the villas in a very momentary way with the most transient of mediums... for me, this emphasizes even more the timelessness of one of the most imitated architects of all time. Whether you are a serious student or an admirer of neo-classical architecture, you will love turning the pages of this book over and over again... just like walking the streets of Vicenza, home of Palladio, you will notice something different every time!
 Pleased November 27, 2007
This book is a work of art. Anyone loving this genre of Italian architecture should have this book. I found a used copy in decent condition. I am very pleased.
BEAUTIFUL BOOK October 26, 2007
IF YOU APPRECIATE DETAILED DRAWINGS OF HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURES BY RENOWNED ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS YOU WILL ENJOY THIS BOOK.
The Villas of Palladio September 18, 2005
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
De delivery was best. The price was reasonable, but the cover was missing of this book. This is the only thing that disappointed me.
The best drawings of Palladio's Villas March 16, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Finally a beautiful book about Palladio's architecture that deals only
with drawings and not photographs. I find this book extremely
interesting and absolutely beautifully produced. The format, the paper
and the quality of the reproductions give the reader a beautiful
chance to enjoy and admire the linear proportions and symmetry of
Palladio's architecture. More interesting is the fact that the author,
Giovanni Giaconi, did not concentrate only on the most famous and
well known villas by Palladio such as the Rotonda, Villa Pisani, Villa
Emo or Villa Foscari, Villa Pojana and Villa Barbaro, to name a few, but
with and obsessive research he measured and draw all the 32 existing
Villas planned by Palladio, also when some of them never came to a
conclusion.
And what's more important is that the Villas are drawn as they now
look.
Some drawings are really interesting like the one of Villa Porto at
Molina, with these ten free standing columns, or even more I wonder
how long it took to draw the very long elevation of Villa Contarini at Piazzola
in the province of Padua.
There are many books with photographs of Palladio's architectures, but this
is the only one with updated measured watercolor drawings and it's really worth a close look at.
Two thumbs up for the talented artist Giovanni Giaconi and to the
interesting and refreshing observations of architect Kim Williams.
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