Pearl of Italian Renaissance, "La Rotonda" was designed by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) just outside Vicenza, northern Italy. Like other works by Palladio in Vicenza and the surrounding area, the building is conserved as part of the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". ---------- "... Certainly not a villa-farm, the Villa Rotonda is rather a villa-temple, an abstraction, a mirror of a higher order and harmony. Its corners oriented to the four compass points, and it wishes to be read above all as a volume, cube and sphere, almost as if it recalled the basic solids of the Platonic universe..." [from http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?sezione=4&architettura=67&lingua=e] ---------- "... Maybe never architectural art has reached such a level of magnificence” (J. W. Goethe, after the visit at La Rotonda). La Rotonda is not a villa. It’s something more. In time it has been visited by poets and artists, sovereigns and statesmen, scholars and art amateurs, travellers and tourists. To everyone La Rotonda has given an unforgettable emotion, that sense of harmony and grace whose answer is a smile, a silence. After 500 years, La Rotonda today is still a place of pure beauty, waiting to give inspiration, culture, joy. ... " - Villa La Rotonda is open to groups and individual visits [see also http://www.villalarotonda.it/en/homepage.htm] #Almerico #Arrigo_Silva #Art #building #Capra #Enrico_Dalbosco #gem #house #italian #Italy #palazzo #Palladio #Renaissance #Valmarana #veneto #Vicenza #Villa #ville_venete
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