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The Great Villa Constructed By The Emperor Hadrian Near Tivoli Between A.d. 118 And The 130s Is One Of The Most Original Monuments In The History Of Architecture And Art. The Inspiration For Major Developments In Villa And Landscape Design From The Renaissance Onward, It Also Influenced Such Eminent Twentieth-century Architects As Le Corbusier And Louis Kahn. In This Beautiful Book, Two Distinguished Architectural Historians Describe And Interpret The Villa As It Existed In Roman Times And Track Its Extraordinary Effect On Architects And Artists Up To The Present Day. William L. Macdonald And John A. Pinto Begin By Evaluating The Numerous Buildings Composing The Complex, And Then Describe The Art, Decorated Surfaces, Gardens, Waterworks, And Life At The Villa. The Authors Then Turn To The Ways The Villa Influenced Writers, Artists, Architects, And Landscape Designers From The Fifteenth Century To The Present. They Discuss, For Example, Piranesi's Archaeological, Architectural, And Graphic Villa Studies In The Eighteenth Century; Connections Between Hadrian's Villa And The English Landscape Garden; The Array Of European Verbal And Artistic Depictions Of The Villa; And Architectural

Author
MacDonald, Professor William L., Pinto, John A.
Publisher
New Haven: Yale University Press
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780300068511
Subjects
Architecture, Art, Arts

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