Palladianism
Palladianism,a revival of the style and ideas of Palladio and of his English follower I. Jones , dominated English architectural theory from c. 1720 to 1770 . The Whig aristocrat and man of taste admired the rationality and the mathematical proportions of Palladio's buildings; the movement marks a turning away from the panache of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh towards a purer form of classicism. Palladianism opened with two publications: Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus (1st vol. 1715 ), a collection of engravings of English buildings inspired by antiquity, and Giacomo Leoni's English version of Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura (1st vol. 1715 ). In the 1720s the architect-earl Lord Burlington dominated; his Chiswick House ( 1725 – 9 ), deeply influenced by Palladio's Villa Rotonda and by Inigo Jones, epitomizes the Palladian movement in England. Pope was a Palladian enthusiast; his...
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