[Redbook9:232][19910501:0800cc]{Renaissance Architecture [continued (29)]}[1st May 1991]
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*’This period of free and decorative Mannerism was followed by a more restrained Classical architecture seen to perfection in one of the greatest architects of the Renaissance, Andrea Palladio....** [His] Villa Capra or Rotonda (1550-51[ce];** with later changes) near Vicenza is magnificent in its simplicity and massing. In the centre of a cubelike block (a cube is typical of most Palladian villas) is a circular hall, and on all four sides are projecting Classic temple fronts as porticos, resulting in an absolute Classic rigidity in the plan.’
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*(In Venice?)
**{cf [(presumably)[Redbook9:312][19910510:0904#]{Baroque Architecture [continued #] (England)}[10th May 1991],] 312}
***64M~1552[ce]
**** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13]: 1004-5
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