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ca. 1750-1760
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Elevation of the interior of the Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, from the stage
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ca. 1750-1760
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DR1980:0029:014
ca. 1750-1760
Elevation and plan of the façade of San Francesco della Vigna, Venice
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ca. 1750-1760
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
photographs
AP207.S4.018
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Includes reference slides on Alessandro Mendini's works, on seaside clubs and colonies, Andrea Palladio's works, and landscape architecture.
1970s-1990s
References slides used as teaching material
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AP207.S4.018
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Includes reference slides on Alessandro Mendini's works, on seaside clubs and colonies, Andrea Palladio's works, and landscape architecture.
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1970s-1990s
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