DR1974:0002:021:021
architecture
1818-1832
architecture
DR1974:0002:021:008
architecture
January 1823
architecture
Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Main galleries
19 July 1994 to 25 September 1994
The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick
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Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Main galleries
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
2 May 2001 to 16 September 2001
Meditations on Piero
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Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
photographs
PH2017:0068
2015
photographs
2015
Project
AP180.S1.1999.PR01
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This project series documents Umberto Riva's realized work for what appears to be a redesign for the interior spaces of the Palazzo Barbaran da Porto of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (also known as the Centro Palladio or the Palladio Museum, in English) in Vicenza, Italy. Riva worked on this project in 1999 in collaboration with Monica Manfredi. The project is solely recorded through details for furnishings, including details for a conference table.
1999
Centro Palladio [Palladio Museum], Vicenza, Italy (1999)
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AP180.S1.1999.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Umberto Riva's realized work for what appears to be a redesign for the interior spaces of the Palazzo Barbaran da Porto of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (also known as the Centro Palladio or the Palladio Museum, in English) in Vicenza, Italy. Riva worked on this project in 1999 in collaboration with Monica Manfredi. The project is solely recorded through details for furnishings, including details for a conference table.
Project
1999
drawings
AP180.S1.1999.PR01.001
ca. 1999
drawings
ca. 1999
photographs
PH1994:0293
1994
photographs
1994