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Alexander Pope implied the architecture is rather dull, lacking either the vigour of the baroque style which was fading from fashion at the time, or the austere grandeur of the Palladian style which was just coming into vogue.
In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture — and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.
The mansion's southern facade is a combination of the Palladian and neoclassical styles of architecture.
Palladian architecture is in control.
Category: Palladian Revival architecture in Virginia
These images are projected onto and around the replica of the painting that now stands at the original site, within the Palladian architecture of the Benedictine refectory on San Giorgio Maggiore.
Lord Burlington, also known as " the architect Earl ", was instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture.
* Palladian architecture 1616 1680 ( Jones )
It features Palladian windows and Corinthian columns, characteristic of the Greek revival style of architecture.
In the 16th century, Sebastiano Serlio helped codify the classical orders and Palladio's legacy evolved into the long tradition of Palladian architecture.
In country house building, major commissions for Kent were designing the interiors of Houghton Hall ( c. 1725 35 ), recently built by Colen Campbell for Sir Robert Walpole, but at Holkham Hall the most complete embodiment of Palladian ideals is still to be found ; there Kent collaborated with Thomas Coke, the other " architect earl ", and had for an assistant Matthew Brettingham, whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next generation.
During his trip to Italy in 1719 the Earl had acquired a passion for Palladian architecture.
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For a period in the early 18th century castles were shunned in favour of Palladian architecture, until they re-emerged as an important cultural and social feature of England, Wales and Scotland and were frequently " improved " during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Palladian architecture was growing in popularity, which sat awkwardly with the typical design of a medieval castle.
They were considered an interesting counterpoint to the now conventional Palladian classical architecture, and a way of giving a degree of medieval allure to their new owners.
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major influence on the architecture of Georgian Dublin and the Irish Palladian Country house.
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* Palladian architecture, a style of architecture created by Andrea Palladio
At a time when Palladian classical architecture and design were being adopted in northern Europe, Hibernia was a useful word to describe Ireland with overtones of classical style and civility, particularly by the prosperous Irish Ascendency who were taught Latin at school.
There is an anti-Rococo strain that can be detected in some European architecture of the earlier 18th century, most vividly represented in the Palladian architecture of Georgian Britain and Ireland, but also recognizable in a classicizing vein of architecture in Berlin.

Palladian and is
`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.
The ground floor is rusticated in the Palladian fashion.
The result is one of the grandest Palladian public spaces.
Bowlish House, also in the Palladian style and now a hotel and restaurant, was built in 1732 by a prosperous local clothier ; a spring is reported to rise in the cellar.
The Radcliffe Camera ( Camera, meaning " room " in Italian ) ( colloquially, " Rad Cam "; " Radder " in 1930s slang ) is a building in Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in the English Palladian style and built in 1737 1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.
This four-storey Palladian villa was built in 1 / 12 scale and is now a permanent exhibit in the public area of Windsor Castle.
If the great north front, approximately 107 metres in length, is Palladian in character, dominated by the massive, six-columned Corinthian portico, then the south front ( illustrated right ) is pure Robert Adam.
He is better remembered as an architect of the revived Palladian style in England.
Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow in England.
Nostell Priory is an 18th century Palladian historic house, with interiors by Robert Adam and furniture by Thomas Chippendale.
It is difficult to classify Leoni's work at Lyme, as it contains elements of both Palladian and Baroque styles.
Although Leoni had been influenced by the works and principles of Palladio, both Pevsner and the authors of the citaiton in the National Heritage List for England agree that the design of this front is more Baroque than Palladian.
The Geminids are a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid.
Designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1851 to replace a house previously destroyed by fire, the present house is a blend of the English Palladian style and the Roman Cinquecento.
In Palladian architecture the mezzanine is a low upper floor, usually for servants and / or storage.
In many ways the late 18th century Monticello, by Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, United States is a Palladian Revival villa.
The architecture of the south front is in severe Palladian style, described at the time as in the ' Italian Style '; built of the local stone, softened by climbing shrubs, it is quintessentially English to our eyes today.

Palladian and European
Jones, a gifted architect steeped in the latest European taste, also designed the Queen's House at Greenwich for Anne, one of the first true Palladian buildings in England ; and the Dutch inventor Salomon de Caus laid out her gardens at Greenwich and Somerset House.
These examples are all classic American colonial examples of a Palladian taste that was transmitted through engravings, for the benefit of masons — and patrons, too — who had no first-hand experience of European building practice.
In the north European countries the portico had become a mere symbol, often closed, or merely hinted at in the design by pilasters, and sometimes in very late examples of English Palladianism adapted to become a porte-cochere ; in America, the Palladian portico regained its full glory.
* Palladian architecture European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio ( 1508 1580 ).
In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture — and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.
However, European national standards differ in this regard, resulting in debate over the form of later " international " borrowings, such as whether the asteroid Pallas should be Palaso in Esperanto, parallel to French and English names Pallas, or Palado, as in Italian Pallade, Russian Паллада ( Palláda ), and the English adjective Palladian.
The classical Palladian style began to dominate European architecture during the 17th century, causing a further move away from the use of keeps.
These were often built in one or another European architectural style, which was in fashion at the time, such as the Palladian, Renaissance, or Neoclassical styles.
There is an anti-Rococo strain that can be detected in some European architecture of the earlier 18th century, most vividly represented in the Palladian architecture of Georgian Britain and Ireland, but also recognizable in a classicizing vein of Late Baroque architecture in Paris ( Perrault's east range of the Louvre ), in Berlin, and even in Rome, in Alessandro Galilei's facade for S. Giovanni in Laterano.

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