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Palladio, Andrea

Palladio, Andrea (1508–80),
Italian architect, builder of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza in 1583. Palladio's neoclassical designs were based on principles of harmonious proportion derived from mathematical ratios, especially 1:2, 3:4, 2:3, and 3:5. Inigo Jones's absorption of Palladian principles is evidenced in his Whitehall Banqueting House of 1622 and the Cockpit-at-Court playhouse conversion of 1629.

Gabriel Egan

Bibliography

Ackerman, James S., Palladio (1966)

Wittkower, Rudolf, Palladio and English Palladianism (1974)

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