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021. Andrea Palladio

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.

Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), I quattro libri dell'architettura (Four Books on Architecture) , Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979 , PML 76057