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Accession number:
PML 76057
Published:
In Venetia : Appresso Dominico de' Franceschi, 1570.
Description:
4 v. in 1 (67, [1]; 66 [i.e. 78], [2]; 46, [2]; 128, [6] p.) : ill. (woodcuts), plans ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit:
Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979.
The architect Andrea Palladio's literary masterwork, the treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura, begun in 1555, profoundly influenced Western architecture.
This illustration presents a plan and an elevation of Palladio's Villa La Rotonda, just outside Vicenza. The design is for a completely symmetrical building with a square plan around a central circular hall with a dome. Each of the four facades has a portico.
Notes:
1st ed. of the four books in 1 vol.
Books 2-4 have separate t.p.
Mellon no.: L 44.75.
Signatures: vol. 1: A² B-I⁴; vol. 2: 2A-2K⁴; vol. 3: 3A-3F⁴; vol. 4: 4A-4R⁴ (2K4 and 4R4 blanks); 4F1 missigned 4E1.
Binding:
1/4 vellum (fragment of manuscript), boards.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sancta Maria Creta (partly identified inscription), Giuseppe Rossetti (inscription) and Paul Mellon (bookplate).
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