I qvattro libri dell'architettvra di Andrea Palladio : ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini, & di quelli auertimenti, che sono piu necessarij nel fabricare ; si tratta delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i xisti, et de' tempij.

Main entry:

Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

Title & Author:

Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Dominico de' Franceschi, 1570.

Description:

4 volumes in 1 : illustrations (woodcuts), plans ; 31 cm (fol.)

Notes:
Also published in Venice, 1570, as 2 v. of 2 books each. I due primi libri dell'antichità ... became books 3 and 4 of I quattro libri dell'architettura and I due libri dell'architettura ... became books 1 and 2.
Printer's device heads t.p. and colophon.
Fowler 212
Digital facsimile available via Rare Book Room site.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "L'architecture et son image: quatre siècles de répresentation architecturale: œuvres tirées des collections du Centre canadien d'architecture = Architecture and its image: four centuries of architectural representation: works from the collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture", Centre canadien d'architecture, May 7-Aug, 7, 1989; Dallas Museum of Art, spring 1990; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, fall 1990.
Exhibited: "Le renouveau palladien: la villa et les jardins de Lord Burlington à Chiswick = The Palladian revival: Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick", Centre canadien d'architecture, July 19-Sept. 25, 1994; Heinz Architectural Center, Oct. 29, 1994-Jan. 9, 1995; Royal Academy of Arts, Feb. 2-Apr. 2, 1995.
Exhibited: "Piero en tête = Meditations on Piero", Centre canadien d'architecture May 2-Sept. 3, 2001.

Resources:
Online version of Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Lessing J. Rosenwald copy

Subject:

Architecture.
architecture (discipline)
Antiquities.
Rome Antiquities.
Rome Antiquités.
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

Treatises.

Added entries:

Quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 29734
Call No.: NA44.P164 (W161)
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library cage 29735
Call No.: NA44.P164 (ID:88-B1843)
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

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