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Palladian and design
However, Vanbrugh's design was not completed: the West Wing was built in a contrasting Palladian style to a design by the 3rd Earl's son-in-law, Sir Thomas Robinson.
Palladian architecture was growing in popularity, which sat awkwardly with the typical design of a medieval castle.
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.
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.
The Manor of Belford was acquired by the Dixon family in 1726 and in 1752 Abraham Dixon built a mansion house in a Palladian style to a design by architect James Paine.
The 18th century saw the architect James Paine commissioned by John Burdon in 1754 to design and construct a Palladian estate at nearby Hardwick Hall.
The record of these and a number of published articles indicate that the design of the furniture shows a highly accomplished progression from the architectural Palladian style to the full fanciful rococo style.
The house was rebuilt in 1720 in the Palladian style to the design of its owner, David Gansel.
When in 1746 the Duke of Bedford decided to rebuild Woburn Abbey, he chose the Palladian style for the design, as this was now the most fashionable of the era.
Two great flanking wings containing a vast suite of state rooms replace the walls or colonnades which should have connected to the farm buildings ; the farm buildings terminating the structure are elevated in height to match the central block, and given Palladian windows, to ensure they are seen as of Palladian design.
Designed by the German Richard Cassels circa 1750, it is closer in design to Palladio's concepts than similar Palladian style houses in England, such as Woburn Abbey.
Designed by the Italian architect Alessandro Galilei ( 1691 – 1737 ), it is perhaps the only Palladian house in Ireland to have been built with Palladio's mathematical ratios, and one of the three Irish mansions which claim to have inspired the design of the White House in Washington.
In 1749 Peter Harrison adopted the design of his Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island, more directly from Palladio's Quattro Libri, while his Brick Market, also in Newport, of a decade later is also Palladian in conception.
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.
The house encapsulates the entire progression of British 18th century architecture from early idiosyncratic Palladian to the Neoclassical, although anomalies in the design of the house also make it architecturally unique.
While the marriage is not completely unhappy, the Palladian features are marred by the lack of Palladio's proportions: the east portico is asymmetrical with the axis of the house, and trees were planted either side to draw the eye away from the design flaw.
Though James Hoban's Palladian design for what would become known as the White House was selected, the influence of the Villa Rotonda can also been seen at Jefferson's own iconic home of Monticello.
The keep at Bolsover Castle in England was one of the few to be built as part of a Palladian design.
Despite the expansions, the hall presents a unified design in the late Palladian style.
Following Pearce's death in 1733, his protegee Richard Cassels ( also known as Richard Castle ) was to design many of Ireland's finest buildings in a similar, if not more robust form of Palladian.
Although many of these mansions, such as Pearce and Cassels joint design Summerhill House, were destroyed in the numerous Irish rebellions, many examples of this unique marrying of the rococo and Palladian still remain today as unique examples of Irish Palladianism.

Palladian and was
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.
A new west façade facing onto St Margaret's Street was built in the Palladian style between 1755 and 1770, providing more space for document storage and committee rooms.
Lord Burlington, also known as " the architect Earl ", was instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture.
Old Bowlish House, which now houses a contemporary art gallery, dates from the first half of the 17th century and was remodelled in about 1720 in the Palladian style.
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.
This four-storey Palladian villa was built in 1 / 12 scale and is now a permanent exhibit in the public area of Windsor Castle.
The Palladian mansion was built in the mid-18th century by Barlow Trecothick, from Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, who returned to England and became an MP and Lord Mayor of the City of London.
The park, with artificial lakes, was originally part of the estate of a large stately home Wanstead House, one of the finest Palladian mansions in Britain, from its size and splendour nicknamed the English Versailles, and the architectural inspiration for Mansion House, London.
In 1996 the site was expanded to include the Palladian villas outside the core area, and accordingly renamed " City of Palladio and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto ".
The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo.
A view of Castle Howard in 1819, from the north west, showing the contrasting Palladian West Wing which was built in the mid-18th century.
The New Palladian Town Hall was built in 1830 by Isaiah Verity of Ash Hall who in gratitude was made a Freeman of Cowbridge.
The three internal spiral staircases, based on Palladian precedent, were not intended to be accessed by Lord Burlington's guests, and were used only by the house servants ; a dumb waiter was installed in place of the fourth internal staircase.
Vanbrugh's severe massed Baroque used at Blenheim never truly caught the public imagination, and was quickly superseded by the revival of the Palladian style.
Latrobe was interested in neither the Palladian nor Adam style, but Neoclassicalism was also being introduced to Great Britain at the time by George Dance the Younger.
It was built in the Palladian style in 1767 on an island within a 26 acre ( 105, 000 m² ) lake, on the site of a former moated medieval hall.

Palladian and popular
By the 1770s, in Britain, such architects as Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers were in huge popular demand, but they were now drawing on a great variety of classical sources, including ancient Greece, so much so that their forms of architecture were eventually defined as neoclassical rather than Palladian.
William Kent designed Holkham Hall in 1734 in the Palladian manner ; Thomas Archer was also a contemporary, although his work tended toward the baroque style that had been popular in England prior to the Palladian revival.
Palladian design was popular, but Robert had evolved a new, more flexible style incorporating elements of classic Roman design alongside influences from Greek, Byzantine and Baroque styles.
This process became popular in 18th century New England to translate the features of Palladian architecture to the house-carpenter's idiom: in Virginia Monticello and Mount Vernon both made use of this technique.

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