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It is quite something when a man can influence some of his
local contemporaries, let alone all future generations across the world!
This splendid volume gives some indication of the extent to which Andrea
Palladio has left his mark upon the world in the form of some of the finer
buildings in Europe, both his own and those of later architects paying
homage to his ideas.
As well as a number of the wonderful villas that
Palladio himself built around Florence, the book includes some of the
great Palladian buildings elsewhere - Lord Burlington's Chiswick House, in
Great Britain, for example.
This volume might appear to be a 'coffee-table book' if
judged by the cover, but the authors are eminently qualified to discuss
and portray the works of Palladio. Professor of Architecture Joseph
Rykwert and his colleague Roberto Schezen have written a number of
excellent architectural books between them and this collaboration does
them both credit .
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