Word: palladio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ture, from which it had been isolated by the Reformation. Appointed the Crown's surveyor-general in 1615, Jones turned into an architect of note, designing the portico to St. Paul's Cathedral and the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall with the serene neoclassicism of Italy's Palladio, thus banishing forever burly Tudor beams and gables...
James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, will go to Rome to study the architecture of Palladio. Morton W. Bloom-field, professor of English, will spend the year at several European libraries, "mainly in Paris," studying medieval manuscripts. He will work particularly on a revised and expanded list of incipits to Latin works on the virtues and vices, and on medieval narrative techniques and problems...
...also see a scale drawing of Italy's first permanent theatre, the Teatro Olimpico in vicenza, designed by Palladio in the 1580's and much copied throughout Europe. France's first theatre, of a tennis-court shape, in the Hotel de Bourgogne (1548) is also on view...
...great book in raciness. But only the bare facts of his life are known. The son of a stonemason, he was born in a small village not far from Venice. His uncle was a successful engineer and architect, and Piranesi started out to be an architect too. He read Palladio, studied the majestic stage designs that were the triumph of the Venetian theater. Even so, Venice seemed a stifling place, Piranesi went to Rome, the city of august memories and ancient glory...