Word: cornaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...temple. No solution could have been more pleasing to Palladio's Italian clients, who enjoyed their pomp; none could have responded better to Palladio's formal bent. The network of ratios between height and width, void and solid, expressed in the façades of Villa Cornaro and Villa Malcontenta, subtly prepares the visitor for the less consciously felt proportions of the rooms within. For there was nothing improvised in Palladio. His plans-always axial, with lesser rooms grouped symmetrically around a high hall-obey stringent rules of harmony, not only in the three dimensions of each room...
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